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BAFTA has appealed for nominations for the Video Game category in this year’s 2012 British Academy Children’s Awards. Former winners in the category include LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (2011), Rabbids Go Home (2010) and LittleBigPlanet (2009). Other categories include Animation, Channel of the Year, Feature Film, Independent Production Company …

Scottish event confirms next round of speakers

Telltale’s second title in its the Walking Dead series is due out on Xbox Live today, the company has said. The Walking Dead: The Game Episode 2 hits Xbox Live in all territories today, IGN reports. The PC and PS3 versions will arrive this Friday (June 29th). The exception, however, …

'Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo won't produce dedicated hardware beyond the next generation', says Ben Cousins

New start-up PlayCanvas designed to be an end-to-end development and publishing solution for 3D HTML5 titles

A war has erupted in the mobile games space, with two Japanese giants hoping to buy their way into the hearts of Western gamers. DeNA and GREE may not be household names in the US or Europe, but they are the two most lucrative firms in mobile games. The pair …

Developer Io Interactive predicts that just one in five players will finish the upcoming Hitman: Absolution. Knowing that 20 per cent of the players will see the last level of the game,” game director Tore Blystad told OPM. It’s horrible to know. It makes the people working on it really …

Dominic Wheatley and Gary Bracey assume top roles at studio group

Kinect title Haunt is currently being offered for free to US Xbox 360 owners. It’s part of a new dashboard feature called ‘Kinect Central’ which looks to promote the motion-sensing camera to owners of the console. The promotion is for a limited time and will expire on Monday July 2nd. …

Katsuhiro Harada, the producer of Namco Bandai’s Tekken franchise, has taken to the internet to deliver a scathing attack on fans of the franchise. I have something I want to say to the people who spam me with requests to ‘switch back to the voice actors used previously’,” he wrote …