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Dev contest sparks Starcrossed's debut on Microsoft marketplace

Swallowtail Games goes official, bolstered by Abertay Prototype Fund cash injection

BAFTA has appealed for nominations for the Video Game category in this year’s 2012 British Academy Children’s Awards. Former winners in the category include LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (2011), Rabbids Go Home (2010) and LittleBigPlanet (2009). Other categories include Animation, Channel of the Year, Feature Film, Independent Production Company …

GAME is urging UK consumers to vote for their favourite game of 2011 before March 13th by giving away a Star Wars Xbox. Gamers who vote at www.baftagameaward.com will be entered into a prize draw to win a Limited Edition Star Wars Xbox 360 console and Kinect accessory. The BAFTA …

Develop Legend Award winner to receive academyâ??s highest honour

The nominations list for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards has been revealed. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops lead the charge with six nominations each. Other names of note include Sony’s Heavy Rain, Microsoft’s Alan Wake, EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and indie …

Development of Pikmin 3 is well under way”, according to a recent comment from Official Nintendo Magazine. The publication left a post on their Twitter feed saying: ONM is at the BAFTAs. Miyamoto just told us Pikmin 3 development is well under way." No other details including release window, gameplay …

Industry sympathiser Tom Watson says developers â??should rightly be proudâ??

Below youâ??ll find footage of Dare to be Digitalâ??s three finalist games

â??A year ago I was just a simple student and now Iâ??m standing here in front of an industryâ??