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There are just three days to go until the biggest night of the year for the UK’s games media. In the run-up to the big event on Wednesday October 26th at Vinopolis, we’re providing a series of features profiling those media brands and individuals in the running for an award. …

Apple’s visionary co-founder Steve Jobs swore he would spend all of his company’s $40 billion to annihilate Google’s rival smartphone operating system. The technology magnate’s hatred of Android is laid bare in a forthcoming official biography. Jobs told author Walter Isaacson that he viewed Android as "grand theft" of his …

An official Batman: Arkham City app has been released merging the full game with the iOS platform. The app, developed by Dorling Kindersley, provides users with an interactive map with locations of the game’s 350 collectables and riddles via their mobile. The App Store page calls it the perfect digital …

'London has a large and diverse business hub with world-class developers' says Babaroga exec

Popular UK-based consumer games site Eurogamer.net has gone live with its brand new look. Launching simultaneously in ten languages, the site has been designed with three different versions now available – an HD mode for normal PC-based browsing as well as both portable and mobile versions. Much of the homepage …

Having enchanted critics, Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham City has also cast a spell on the British public. The game is the new UKIE Gfk ChartTrack’s All Formats No.1, knocking former chart-topper FIFA 12 into second place. Batman becomes the fourth biggest launch of the year to date behind, FIFA 12, …

John Broomhall catches up with Forza 4's car audio specialist

The first reviews of EA’s Battlefield 3 have gone live ahead of its release in the US tomorrow (October 25th) and in Europe on Friday (October 28th). EA’s long awaited shooter currently has an impressive Metacritic average of 94 per cent. Once players step out of that troop carrier and …

The World of Warcraft steam train just keeps powering on with developer Blizzard announcing at BlizzCon 2011 this weekend that a fourth expansion for World of Warcraft is in the works. And perhaps the game is going a bit doolally in its old age – the expansion is set to …

We look at how Relentless crafted the first Unity-authored Kinect game