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Microsoft has named the two games that will feature this month in Xbox 360’s Games With Gold offer. As of today, Microsoft’s hugely popular (and arguably never bettered) Crackdown will be offered to free for Xbox Gold members. Then from August 16th Capcom’s Dead Rising 2 and its digital prologue …

EA and developer DICE have confirmed a rough release window for multiplayer title Star Wars: Battlefront. The game is due out in summer 2015 – which more than likely means it will be out around the same time as Disney’s much anticipated Star Wars VII movie. "We have partnered with …

Namco Bandai is giving consumers the chance to be among the first to test Ridge Racer Driftopia, the first free-to-play entry in the series. The game was announced back in April and enters closed beta on Steam today. It is being developed for PS3 and PC by Bugbear Entertainment, the …

Former EA CEO says the industry will soon tire of profit-driven clones

Sony details its revamped submission process and how it plans to tackle discoverability

Develop gives the creator of CSR Racing the rapid-fire question treatment

CliffyB asks Fez creator not to give up on gaming for good

An exciting new award, the Games Media Academy, will be introduced at the Games Media Awards 2013 this October. The award is supported by Future, IGN, Gamespot, Network-N and, of course, Intent Media. This category was open to anyone who is currently NOT paid as a member of the games …

Over 50 writers have been named as finalists at the UK’s specialist awards celebrating the very best in games journalism. The annual Games Media Awards cover all corners of the games press, national press, lifestyle media, national newspapers, radio, TV and blogging community. As well as the 50 writers up …

Sony’s gaming division has seen operating losses grow from 3.5bn to 14.8bn ($149m) for the quarter ending June 2013. Sales were flat at 117.9bn primarily due to a decrease in unit sales of the PS3, PSP and PS2” while gaming losses increased significantly primarily due to an increase in research …