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A few weeks ago, I had the rare opportunity to experience Grand Theft Auto 5 – quite easily the biggest game release of the year – in action. The demo lasted about 40 minutes and included a lot of what we’ve loved and come to expect from GTA games, but …

New office to focus on development of original IP

Free-to-play specialist Wargaming is delighted to be moving to Xbox – although it’s having to bite its tongue in the process. Wargaming’s CEO Victor Kislyi has confessed that he’s uneasy about certain elements of Microsoft’s ecosystem but says that he’ll just have to tolerate” it. "With Microsoft, unfortunately it’s not …

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will launch in India this year alongside Europe. PlayStation India country manager toldIVGthat the console would arrive in India at most a month after European release, but would still make it here in this calendar year, perhaps indicating the heavily rumoured November release …

Player hosted-servers 'holding back online gaming', says Titanfall engineer

"Why haven’t you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront." That was the reaction from Swedish developer DICE when it discovered that EA was in talks with Disney regarding the Star Wars video game right. The DICE guys Karl Magnus Troedsson and Patrick Bach were …

We highlight the audio track at this year's Brighton conference

Deep Silver’s Saints Row 4 has become the first game to be banned in Australia since the introduction of new classification guidelines. In January the Australian government overhauled its rating system, introducing a new R18+ tier for the first time that was supposed to allow mature games a route to …

The entry period for the British Academy Games Awards in 2014 is now open. Furthermore, BAFTA has extended the entry period by three months to November 11th 2013. The ceremony will present 16 awards. One again those entering a game for the first time will be able to do so …

Epic on bringing feature-rich C++ gaming experiences to the web