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Video site YouTube has backed the Golden Joystick Awards and is even putting its name to a new category. The YouTube gamer award recognises the best gaming creators on YouTube.Nominees include channels Yogscast, The Syndicate Project, Total Biscuit, AtheneWins, Matroix and InTheLittleWood. Voting for The YouTube Gamer Award is now …

In a trend that is becoming increasingly common across games with multiplayer components, Ubisoft today unveiled the season pass for its upcoming epic Assassin’s Creed 3. The season pass provides access to all forthcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 downloadable content at a discounted bulk price. The pass is now available on …

Facebook has amassed more than one billion monthly users. As well as reaching the hugely impressive milestone, 1/7th of the world’s entire population , more than 235 people are now also playing games on the website. The recently launched Facebook App Centre meanwhile has more than 220 million monthly active …

FIFA 13 is not just the fastest-selling game in the EA Sports series to date – it is also the most profitable. In just two days, the game sold over 1.23m copies in the UK alone. That’s an increase of 27 per cent over last year’s record-breaking FIFA 12. FIFA …

235 million people playing games through the social network site each month

Capcom’s latest survival horror adventure Resident Evil 6 has shipped 4.5m copies worldwide – more than any other title in the publisher’s history. The series’ previous outing, 2009’s Resident Evil 5, shipped 4.4m copies, according to CVG. Resident Evil 6 launched earlier this week – you can read more about …

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A pass for next month’s must-attend conference with content from Google, Twitter and many more costs just 199. But hurry! There is just a week left to buy passes for this year’s London Games Conference at the reduced rate. The November 21st conference has speakers from Google, Twitter, EA, Disney, …

This week’s MCV isnow available to download– and it features our interview with OnLive about how the cloud gaming firm is recovering from bankruptcy. Also in this edition is an in-depth analysis on the impact of FIFA 13’s phenomenal launch, Nintendo’s plans for 3DS, Capcom on Remember Me, nine pages …

The lead designer behind BioWare’s MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic has quit the studio. Revealing the news on twitter, Daniel Erickson appeared to hit out and those in the industry who believe social, mobile and free-to-play was the future for many titles. No reason was given for his departure. …