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Free-to-play gaming comes to Xbox 360 this week, as the microtransaction-supported brawler Happy Wars launches for Xbox Live Gold subscribers on Friday, October 12th. The game has players going at one another in large scale multiplayer battles in up to 15v15 online skirmishes, and will also include an offline single-player …

Valve has revealed Steam’s latest weekly top sellers chart, with XCOM: Enemy Unknown pre-orders charging ahead of the pack prior to the game’s launch week. Borderlands 2 and Torchlight II continue to occupy the top half, but Dishonored pre-orders stepped in between the two to shake things up a bit …

Developers, journalists and students recognised at the inaugural talent-swap games jam

Andrew Smith reviews a game developed by Keith Stuart and Theo Chin

This dance you have performed is at best a 2-out-of-10 avocado

Lewie Procter and Karn Bianco's game jam effort goes under the critical microscope

48 Hours later and has GI Joyce barely hobbled over the finish line or is it a golden oldie?

Insomnia, short deadlines, stress and equipment failure - so what's the appeal?

I like Japanese games, and here's why you should too

Are you a hateful, meaningless mess of a human being? No? Then you can Game Jam