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Creator Chris Roberts backpedals and moves project to Kickstarter

Mango Learning has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its development projects aimed at bringing educational games to mobile devices. Comprised of game developers and education experts, Mango is looking to raise at least $100,000 through crowd funding. Mango will use funds from the Kickstarter campaign to create the first …

Kieron Gillen named Games Media Legend

Internet and chart sensation Gangnam Style is coming to your games console. Ubisoft has confirmed that the track – which has become a worldwide smash hit – will be offered as DLC for dance title Just Dance 4. The video, by South Korean band Psy, has over 480m hits on …

Free modding platform based on RedEngine to include 'advanced' landscape design tools and day-night cycle simulations

There’s still over a month to wait, but that’s no reason not to be very, very excited about Far Cry 3. In a new video by GameSpot we’re shown a little about how the world is constructed and how players can go about navigating – and in turn liberating – …

Games blog Hookshot Inc and its founders took home the most prizes at last night’s Games Media Award. The blog itself won for best coverage of games on a blog – while co-founders Christian Donlan, Simon Parkin and Keith Stuart also received honours for their other work in print, online …

Want to read Keza MacDonald’s award winning article on EVE Online? Then click here. The IGN-published article scored MacDonald the first ever Games Writer of the Year prize at the Games Media Awards last night. The piece was judged blind by Guardian columnist and award-winning author Tim Lott, and selected …

The UK Government has outlined its plans to train up the first generation of computer science teachers as it prepares to introduce the course to the curriculum. To begin in schools from September 2013, Education Secretary Michael Gove also announced that funding had ended for the current Information and Communications …

Keza MacDonald was the inaugural winner of the Games Media Awards’ new Games Writer of the Year accolade last night. A new award for 2012, this prize invited journalists from all fields invited to submit a piece of work written over the past year. The Games Writer of the Year …