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The games industry gave five charities supporting disadvantaged kids big donation cheques this evening. UK video games charity GamesAid this evening revealed the winners of its 2012 member vote. Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Small Steps, Special Effect and The Willow Foundation were the five charities that got the nod from …

First 1,000 purchases to receive Doom 3: BFG Edition to show off tech's capabilities

UK gaming trade body UKIE has revealed the names of the six people – four of whom are developer – who have been appointed to its board. The development heads are Noirin Carmody (owner and COO of Revolution Software), Miles Jacobson (studio director, Sports Interactive), Alice Taylor (CEO and founder, …

Miles Jacobson, Noirin Carmody and Paul Wedgwood also named to help shape future policy at trade body

It’s one of the biggest video game retail highlights of the year. And today we should find out how far retailers are willing to go to secure their day one marketshare. Hundreds of retailers will be opening their doors at midnight tonight to welcome the arrival of the game and …

Minecraft creator Markus Notch” Persson had made a public declaration of opposition to Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform. Microsoft has been certifying software since the days of Windows XP. Certification is supposed to offer the user a certain quality benchmark and requires software to meet a number of technical requirements. However, …

The casual gaming giant's former CMO tells Develop why he left and joined multimedia firm GSN

Our Jobs In Games special, in association with OPM, has already looked at creating a succinct CV, but in the development world there’s something else to consider. Leading recruitment agency OPM offers advice on why more effort should be put into a winning demo reel or portfolio. DEMO WORK – …

Vegetarians and squeamish types might want to turn away. Capcom will tomorrow open the world’s first human butchery at London’s famous Smithfields meat market. It will trade for two days from Friday September 28th. It’s fronted by fictional butcher Wesker & Son and will offer members of the public the …

It’s a Call of Duty game. Made by Treyarch. And that, as well know by now, means zombies. And this year, it will mean more zombies than ever before. Polygon reports that the game will for the first time support eight players simultaneously – a significant evolution for a game …