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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 …

The best thing is, you can’t bury digital games in the desert! Chillingo and Universal have teamed up to bring the Strawdog Studios’ developed title ET: The Green Planet to iOS. It’s available to download for free right now from the App Store. The stumpy, stretchy-necked alien is no stranger …

Consumers asked to fill in survey on playing habits and favoured genres and platforms

How do you appeal to a wide audience AND keep your dedicated brand loyalists happy? It’s a tough juggling act, and one that the vocal internet masses would probably argue that Capcom tried and failed to execute with Resident Evil 6. But Square Enix seems to have conjured what appears …

Upcoming titles such as Halo 4, Forza Horizon and Nike+ Fitness will receive considerable price hikes, Microsoft has informed retailers. Halo 4 will retail for Rs 3,299, with the Limited Collector’s Edition priced at Rs 4,599, while Forza Horizon will be priced at Rs 2,999 for the standard edition and …

Layoffs enacted as owners look to keep developer running as a smaller operation

Tesco’s games buyer Mark Burgess has left the supermarket chain for specialist giant Game Retail. Burgess joins the team as third party physical and digital content manager. I am really pleased to be joining GAME at such an exciting time,”?Burgess told MCV. There is lots of innovative activity taking place …

Gearbox has announced that its Mechromancer DLC for Borderlands 2 will arrive a week earlier than expected. It had originally been scheduled to launch on October 16th. The download will go live on Xbox 360 and PC this afternoon, though it likely won’t arrive on PSN until Sony’s weekly store …