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Former Diablo III director Jay Wilson has admitted that both the real-money and in-game gold Auction Houses really hurt the game.” Wilson detailed the stark difference between Blizzard’s original assumptions during development and the eventual reality of the situation, during a GDC talk (via Joystiq) this week in San Francisco. …

Nintendo’s Miiverse web and smartphone app for Wii U is inching closer to arrival. Polygon reports that Nintendo’s Kiyoshi Mizuki stated the app would be available in either April or May. It will only have basic functionality at first, including posting comments, drawing doodles, and joining game communities. A 3DS …

YouTube has announced a new set of application programming interfaces to help developers in the process of live streaming their games. The announcement came in a GDC presentation to developers, The Verge reports. The company trumpeted the benefits of video integration as a means for not just promoting games, but …

Games The Shop, India’s largest physical game retail chain, now has an online presence. However, rather than setting up its own e-commerce portal, the retailer has chosen to go the eBay Store route. The chain is a subsidiary of E-xpress Interactive, one of India’s largest game distributors, and has ten …

All the major announcements, interviews and insights from Thursday right here

Brenda Romero picks up lifetime achievement accolade for significant contributions to industry

George Fan of Plants Vs. Zombies has four questions to avert avert disaster

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The Android-based Ouya console launches in the UK on June 4th. Ouya is famous for raising over $6m via Kickstarter last summer, promising cheap and accessible games and a console at a low price. It will be sold by GAME in the UK, and priced 99 (it costs $99 in …

Hardware begins shipping to Kickstarter backers from today