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The Warlock of Firetop Mountain: The Lost chapters crowned champion of developer contest

War Balloon Games 'spent $10,000 on prize fulfilment'

The French arm of Sony Computer Entertainment has revealed the date of the company’s E3 press conference in an email sent to journalists today. The briefing will take place on Monday June 4th at 18:00 PST (that’s 02:00 on the morning of Tuesday June 5th in the UK). It will …

GamesAid will once again be asking attendees at this year’s MCV Awards to donate just 10. All donations will be then split amongst partner charities, as voted for by members of the UK games industry later in the year. The organisation aimsto raise 4,000 by the end of the night. …

RPGS are not cool. The genre conjures images of Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings and epic adventures that only the most dedicated gamer will ever stand a chance of finishing. And while they have always been successful (on PC World of Warcraft still reigns supreme), they are hardly …

It would appear that none other than Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that a brand new Super Mario game will be announced for Wii U at E3. The confirmation comes from an interview with Spanish language website El Mundo, as deciphered from Google’s translation (and a translation from forum Neogaf). Could …

Games icon not yet ready to resign, but is passing responsibility to younger colleagues

Last week the games industry lost one of its founding fathers with the sad news of Jack Tramiel’s passing. Here, Zattikka president Tim Chaney recalls the legacy left by the founder of Commodore… In early 1982 I responded to an advertisement in The Grocer for Regional Sales Executive – Consumer …

Smartphones are the industry’s fastest-growing gaming platform – but one that is off limits to video games retailers. The only way for the High Street to grab a slice of the 7m spent on Angry Birds Space, the millions of dollars invested in Smurfs Village’s Smurfberries or the countless other …

EA will release Crysis 3 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2013, it has confirmed. The blurb describes it as the premier sandbox shooter experience of 2013”, suggesting an experience more akin to the first game than the 2011 sequel. Indeed, that’s an assumption supported by the first batch …