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The London Games Festival will not take place this year. Organiser Ukie has confirmed to MCV that the brand is taking a year off. Traditionally, the annual event rolls up a month-long series of events and presents them as a way to better promote the games industry and celebrate its …

Epic Games gave a tech demo at SIGGRAPH today that showed what it called desktop PC game content” running on Nvidia’s Logan” mobile processor. The Unreal Engine 4 powered demonstration took advantage of Nvidia’s new support for OpenGL 4.3, which allows developers access to high-end graphics on mobile devices. The …

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Project Logan, Nvidia’s next-generation mobile GPU, will feature Kepler architecture, which the company says can outperform the PS3 and Xbox 360, with 3x better performance than the iPad 4. Through Kepler, mobile devices can now take advantage of graphics technologies such as OpenGL 4.4, OpenGL ES 3.0 and DirectX 11, …

The games business is going digital and the mobile platform and Asian markets are the biggest growth areas, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has said. EA recently announced its financial results for the previous quarter, revealing that 76% of its revenues came from digital. The business is going digital. Mobile. …

Microsoft has announced that it will allow developers to self-publish their games on Xbox One, and that all retail Xbox One units will also serve as dev units, removing the need for indie devs to purchase separate dev kits. The company’s policy reversal comes after a backlash from indie developers …

Valve has approved a new batch of games and software through its Steam Greenlight program, among which is cult hit Deadly Premonition. The Director’s Cut edition of the psychological horror game may have set a record for shortest period as a Greenlight candidate, with the game kicking-off its campaign for …

A black model of Nintendo’s 3DS XL line looks to be on its way to shelves in North America, according to an ad promoting the hardware. Go Nintendo reports on a print ad from Real Canadian Superstore (pictured) that shows the yet to be announced black 3DS XL, and lists …