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Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley doesn’t believe people should be working in the games industry if they don’t play games. In my opinion, people that don’t play games have no business in this business. It should be the gamers-only club, I think. I can’t stand people that don’t know …

Specialist games retailer Game4u will hold a midnight launch for popular upcoming title FIFA 13. The midnight launch will be conducted at the following Game4u stores: Mumbai – Mega Mall, Andheri Mumbai – Infiniti Mall, Malad Gurgaon – MGF Metropolis Jalandhar – Viva Collage Ludhiana – MBD Neopolis The midnight …

Karp to take up role as executive VP for mobile and social games

Language barriers are preventing small studios succeeding on the platform, says Marvelous AQL producer

15 successful nominees will earn the chance to pitch their proposals to publishers

Q Entertainment CCO takes on spokesperson role at Tokyo studio

Just give us a moment to extract ourselves form the mound of pinched salt that has enveloped us. A report on French site Journaldugamer – as translated by OXM – makes a number of fascinating claims about the long-waited Valve sequel. It claims that the project has endured a very …

Season 4 of the Indian Cyber Gaming Championship will take place in Goa from 5th to 7th October. Organised by Re-Inforcement, part of Nodwin Gaming, next month’s ICGC finals are a culmination of various local tournaments across 14 cities, the top teams and players from which will duke it out …

DVD and Blu-ray have already made more than 700m for UK retail this year. That entertainment sector is tracking ahead of last year, with 90.3m discs sold. And it is outstripping year-to-date sales of video games both in terms of units and value. With plenty of high-profile releases still on …

30 universities such as Stanford, Brown and the University of London pledge support to education site