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The first issue of CVG Presents… hits shelves on April 16th, and is based on a minor Rockstar title you may have heard of called GTA IV, offering a comprehensive mix of newly-commissioned editorial and features from the Future archive. It plans to be a coffee-table style publication, and is …

Game design competition becomes '4Dare' and open to students in UK, Germany, China and India

$1m prize fund available to modders using Unreal Engine 3

Dr John Charlton of Bolton University has discovered that game playing can dominate users’ lives, causing them to miss sleep and meals. Dr Charlton studied almost 400 regular players of online role-playing game Asheron’s Call. The studied showed that the closer the gamers came to being addicted, the more they …

Home represents arguably the biggest single development in next-gen gaming, and is certainly massive news for PS3 – so it’s not surprising that talk of a public beta for the virtual world service has sent the internet into a frenzy. A poster on Sony’s US PlayStation blog has uploaded scans …

Seemingly just moments after snapping up the rights to all things Tom Clancy, Ubisoft has announced a new title branded with the anti-terror author’s moniker – HAWX. Standing for High Altitude Warfare X, the Ubisoft Bucharest developed title will, as the name suggest, bring the flight sim genre to the …

With professional quality plug-ins, superior vocal suppression and sophisticated surround upmixing, SingStarâ??s audio technology and production processes have hit the high notes.

What's changed in the games development recruitment market in the past year?

LucasArts has named its new president – current COO of Electronic Arts Los Angeles Darrell Rodriguez. Rodriguez will officially join LucasArts in mid-April. Rodriguez, who LucasArts describes as an ‘avid gamer’ has previously contributed work to EA franchises such as Medal of Honor, The Lord of the Rings: Battle for …

COO of Los Angeles studio steps in to replace recently departed Jim Ward