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Having only opened voting six weeks ago, Future has announced that over 1m votes have already been cast in this year’s GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards presented by Alienware. It’s the fastest that the milestone has been hit in the event’s 29-year history. The awards remain on target to beat last …

Swedish consulting company becomes latest licensee

Ubisoft has announced a tenth instalment in its highly successful dancing series – Just Dance Kids. The game will be released on November 4th in the UK for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Kinect and Move compatibility has been confirmed. The game will feature 40 kid-orientated tracks as well as …

Andy Robson, managing director at Testology, pays tribute

Revenue from in-game advertising is expected to increase in the next few years, but are advertisers making the most of our medium? The new Advertising and Video Games report by research firm DFC Intelligence predicts that the in-game advertising market will reach $7.2bn globally by 2016, according to IndustryGamers. The …

Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has demonstrated PlayStation Vita’s ability to play games streamed directly from a PS3. The president of Sony Worldwide Studios was showing off PS Vita’s Remote Play technology at Tokyo Games Show, reports VG247. He played Killzone 3 on the PS Vita which was streamed onto the handheld …

Realtime UK's Dave Cullinane looks at what a pre-rendered games trailer can do for a fledgling project

The UK's smartest games companies prove their intellectual clout

Social gaming network boss leaving to 'pursue new opportunities'

Rockstar’s upcoming Max Payne 3 has received its first official trailer. The game is being developed by the Rockstar Vancouver studio, though other developers – including the London officer – will also be chipping in. In it we see the troubled Max arrive in Sao Paulo. So much is the …