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The internet has erupted this afternoon after an eager journalist spotted a listing for Valve’s hugely anticipated Half-Life 3 in the official Gamescom show guide. T3 reports that the game is included in Gamecom’s PDF guide. It’s safe to say that Half-Life 3 is amongst the most anticipated releases in …

Designers should think about the effect games can have on modern culture, says Braid creator

Julie Uhrman, the CEO of Ouya, has told MCV that her company feels a burden of responsibility to deliver on all of its promises for its thousands of backers. The Ouya Kickstarter closed last week having raised an astonishing total of $8,596,475 from 63,416 separate backers. We’ve been stunned by …

New IP is all too rare in the modern market. New IP with a female lead character is rarer still. Capcom has this morning used its Gamescom presentation to reintroduce its Remember Me IP, which was shown off last year under the name Adrift. The game is being developed by …

New Stockholm studio to support Angry Birds developer with current and upcoming projects

US outfit looking to expand Canadian branch to 60 employees over the next six months

Consumers spend a lot of time complaining about day one DLC. The thing is, they spend a lot of time buying it, too. It’s a phenomenon seen across the entire industry. The amount of vitriol aimed at Call of Duty, for instance, would suggest that it’s not popular. When in …

An analysis of employee reviews at online jobs portal Glassdoor has labelled GameStop as the tenth worst company to work for in the US. Those included in the report must have had at least 300 reviews, with a total of 202 companies being analysed. GameStop’s business model has come under …

The management team at EA has convinced analysts that the publisher is well positioned to thrive in the next-gen games market. That isn’t enough to prevent the current financial year being a challenging one, Baird Equity Research’s Colin Sebastian warns, but it bodes well for life beyond the current generation …

Mix and match payment systems are too confusing, says Wargaming.net CEO