UK gaming company Game are running a competition to win a brand new Nintendo Wii U Premium Console and to be in with a chance of winning this prize you need to get your games design head on.

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Since launching in the UK, at the end of October 2012, the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter is really starting to gain a foot-hold with new project ideas appearing from a number of UK-based creators from a range of geographic locations. London is ... Read More

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Hot on the heels of the Wii U launch Microsoft are in the news with news of their rumoured next generation gaming console.

Bloomberg are reporting, via their “sources”, that the next generation Xbox – the 720 (codenamed by ... Read More

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In this review we will be taking a look at the HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition from Hauppauge! (Model 1482), a device which can record video game play in high definition onto a laptop or desktop computer.

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Throw away the annoying paper clip – here’s how to really confuse your IT department who won’t let you play games at work. Tell them you need the “Ribbon Hero” add-in for Microsoft Office and tell them it is ... Read More

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The kids were getting a bit bored and “playful” on a Sunday afternoon and they could do with running off some steam so thinking quickly I remembered an augmented reality game that I had previously downloaded on my HTC Hero. ... Read More

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The keynote speaker for this years Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) has been confirmed as Sid Meier, co-founder of Firaxis Games, and developer of well known simulation games Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, Pirates! and of course the much loved Civilisation series.

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Whilst working on a social media project for work, and being a curious software developer, it seemed like a good idea to have a go at creating an online Flash based casual game to better understand the mechanics of the ... Read More

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Ever wonder what is involved in the day to day operations of IT? Maybe you have thought "I could do better" a few times – well Intel have released the third wave of their IT Manager games series entitled ... Read More

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I recently completed the Pairs Game I was developing as a project in Flash. It was a fun and interesting project to do and I owe a lot of thanks to my play tester at home for spotting strange issues ... Read More

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