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We’re just a few hours away from finally having some of the answers. Will Rockstar North choose to revisit San Andreas, its digital recreation of an entire state, or the neon-clad Vice City? Will it go for somewhere else, but another slice of Americana? Or maybe somewhere different – a …

Scheme aims to 'strengthen industry and academia links' in the UK

[Intel sponsored feature] So your game is almost ready, but where do you refine and should you use instrumentation?

[Intel sponsored feature] So your game is almost ready, but where do you refine and should you use instrumentation?

Codemasters will release a 3DS version of successful racer F1 2011 on November 25th in the UK and Europe. It’s the first time a Formula One game has been available in 3D. This new version includes most of the features found in the console versions, such as all of the …

Winners of game jam to receive commercial Unreal Engine 3 license for iOS

Survey of over 1,000 votes iPhone and Steve Jobs as the most influential on games

Ten of the 20 best-selling games in Europe this year have been published on Nintendo formats. The platform holder revealed the top-selling games for the first nine months of 2011 in Europe, the US and Japan as part of its half-year financial results briefing. The data was taken from GfK …

Online games swap shop GaBoom has been relaunched. The portal is the brainchild of Jessica Ratcliffe, star of this year’s 30 Under 30 and former contestant on the BBC’s Dragon Den, where she tried to secure investment in the venture. As well as a new url, the site has streamlined …

Move over, Miyamoto. Step aside, Steam. The games industry says former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the iPhone were most influential thing to happen to interactive entertainment. A survey of over 1,000 industry execs has put the two at the top of the league tables when it comes to which …