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GTA studio avoiding portable devices

Electronic Arts will soon start selling games made by its competitors. The company’s new Origin platform for digital distribution will offer games from Warner, THQ and Capcom with the first first games out next month. Batman: Arkham City and Saints Row: The Third are two of the triple-A games destined …

Regency Picture's upcoming movie 'In Time' cross-promoted with iPhone game

Midlands will host two-day industry conference in November

Time running out to get early bird tickets for London conference

Backbone Entertainment, CCP Games and Pixar due to speak at Paris event

Top individual writers took home key accolades at yesterday’s Games Media Awards. IGN UK editor Keza MacDonald won best specialist writer, online. Freelancer Christian Donlan was named best specialist writer, print. Dave Cook took the prize for best regional newspaper writer. And VideoGamer’s Martin Gaston received the Rising Star prize, …

iPhone app helps fund operation that could make Grace Windram walk for the first time

As 3DS manufacturer reports first-half loss of £578m

PC-focused site Rock, Paper, Shotgun took home the accolade of best Games Blog from last night’s Games Media Awards. The hugely popular blog was launched in 2007 and enjoys a monthly readership of more than 1m users. It was founded by industry veterans Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol, John Walker and …