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Poor working conditions lead to 'loss and hopelessness' for thousands of Chinese

New pan-Asian focus helps bring visitors despite Japan industry woes

Microsoft has kick-started its Xfriends competition, where competing on Xbox Live across seven games will give one gamer the chance to walk away with Rs 5 lakh. Games included in the competition are Tekken Tag Torunament 2, FIFA 13, NBA 2K13, Resident Evil 6, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Halo 4 …

Valve’s freshly revealed hardware team will be looking into public beta tests next year for the division’s various prototypes. Sector head Jeri Ellsworth told Engaget that the company is already conducting internal betas for the team’s potential products. Valve announced their intentions to enter the hardware market earlier this month; …

Rare’s fighting franchise Killer Instinct could be back from the dead. Microsoft renewed the IP’s trademark last week; and while they’re not hiding that fact, there’s not a whole lot the company is saying at this point. "We have either renewed or refiled a trademark application in various jurisdictions,” Microsoft …

Telltale has announced the next episode of The Walking Dead will arrive in October. Entitled ‘Around Every Corner’, the fourth chapter in the set of five has been penned by Book of Eli screenwriter Gary Whitta. A specific date wasn’t revealed, but look for it to release digitally on PC, …

Aardvark Swift game recruiter Peter Broughton offers a guide on getting temporary work

Job listing suggests online focus for new branch

Moshi Monsters platform team lead Ben Burry and ex-NCsoft head of community Jen Bolton also head to London outfit

Bayonetta is a modern Japanese classic. As long as you played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version – a port of the Xbox 360 code – was handled by an in-house team at publisher Sega. The result was a release dogged by framerate and control issues. The biggest failure …