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Valve has revealed its searching for people to playtest its games and hardware prototypes. The announcement comes after the company’s newly unveiled hardware division indicated that public beta tests are planned for next year. Those interested need to submit a general survey to Valve and must be local to the …

Free-to-play won't just be strategy games and RPGs, says Kongregate co-founder

Best advice for indies is 'start saving lots of money' says A Virus Named Tom's Holly Keenan

Bracelet pushes boundaries of motion control with finger tracking and real-time 3D rendering

Video games media site IGN Entertainment has launched its IGN application today on Xbox Live. The application will give Xbox Live gold subscribers access to the site’s video content direct from their console. The app will stream gaming-related content including previews, guides, live streams, presentations, industry events and more. IGN’s …

Square Enix has announced pre-order details of the survival and deluxe collector’s editions of upcoming saction adventure game Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider, which is due for release next year, will come in three editions: standard, survival and deluxe. The Survival Edition will include the game, a mini art book, double …

Lecturer and senior designer Justin Parsler on why teaching is integral to the future of games development

If you’re in games PR and not attending, make sure your boss doesn’t find out… Trade tickets for this year’s Games Media Awards are almost all gone. So act now if you want to make sure you’re at the big night of the year for the UK’s games press.ContactKathryn.Humphrey@intentmedia.co.ukto book …

One month remains until the year’s ultimate event focused on digital distribution and discovery for games. London Games Conference chairman James Binns explains why you should attend… See you at the London Games Conference, yes? LGC won’t tell you how to make a better game.Or how to switch from console …

Warner Interactive’s Batman: Arkham City Armoured Edition is to be a Wii U launch day game. The title had previously been penciled in for the console’s launch window”. It will now release alongside the console itself on November 30th. It’s developed not by Rocksteady but instead by Warner Bros Games …