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After its successful debut in 2012, the Games Writer of the Year Award is returning to reward excellence in games journalism. All games journalists – specialist, non-specialist, print and online – can enter this category. Journalists simply need to submit a piece of writing published since October 18th last year. …

The Games Media Awards will return this autumn to celebrate journalism in this vibrant sector. And this year a new element will be added to the mix – the Games Media Academy. The Games Media Awards will again reward every area of games media. The prestigious Games Writer of the …

Publisher will keep on developing titles for current-gen consoles until at least 2017

Publisher benchmarks video and audio performance of new Xbox at eight-to-10 times higher than current gen

Global games retailer GameStop has reported a like-for-like annual sales decrease of 6.7 per cent for the quarter ending May 4th 2013. Gross profit fell from $599.9m last year to $578.3m. Operating earnings fell from $115m to $87.2m. Net earnings fell from $72.5m to $54.6m. New software sales fell 3.8 …

The new breed of Nvidia graphics cards have arrived. Having briefed the media yesterday Nvidia has officially announced the GeForce GTX 780, which has just gone on sale in the UK for 549. The card’s base clock comes in at 863 Mhz although this boosts to 900 Mhz. 3GB of …

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Despite two generations of failure in the Far East, Xbox One will be launched in Japan. "We’re committed to Japan," Don Mattrick said in a roundtable attended by OXM. "We continue to build on our partnerships, we continue to build on our offerings for consumers inside of that space. "We …

Rajat Taneja, the executive VP and CTO of EA, has made a quite remarkable claim about the power of the upcoming next-generation. It all begins with the raw horsepower of the platform which catalyses the imagination and will power the next wave of innovation in entertainment,” he wrote on LinkedIn. …

A listing on the ratings website of the Brazilian ratings board suggests that Ubisoft will shortly announce an HD re-release for Far Cry. CVG spotted that the listing mentions versions for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. There’s no mention of a release date, and as the application was filed …