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Having featured on BBC consumer rights programme Watchdog for a second time earlier this week, EA has moved to address concerns about FIFA 13’s alleged technical issues. Quite why the BBC has chosen to focus on EA’s game as opposed to any number of far buggier titles that are released …

New version of game engine released for testing

GameZen already offers over 1,000 games on Microsoft's new OS

Deal with city to bring at least 150 new jobs

We’re in Pune, where the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference gets underway in little over an hour. Kicking things off today will be an opening keynote address from Glen Schofield, CEO of Sledgehammer Games. That will be followed by a ‘State of the Industry’ panel discussion featuring Vishal Gondal (Disney UTV), …

Leading finance company American Express has teamed up with Xbox Live for a first of its kind promo offer. American Express cardholders will be offered the opportunity to unlock content, offers and experiences by syncing their eligible Cards with Xbox Live”. Members will be able to access their AMEX presence” …

Company founder and former EDC head named as defendants in row over studio collapse

Robert Briscoe's on why a healthy attitude to failure, and turning down a job with Valve, can make you an indie star

Source says PS4 is based on an AMD processor and will have an optical disc drive

The next PlayStation has received a hardware update – before the console has even been officially announced. VG247 reports that new versions of the PS4 dev kit, codenamed Orbis, are now being shipped to developers around the world. This will be the second of four dev kits due before the …