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Deus Ex Designer Honoured With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award

7:30AM February 4, 2012 | Mike Fahey

With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. More »


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Which Of These Five Games Had The Best Writing Of 2012?

9:30AM January 12, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Every year the Writers Guild of America awards a special Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing award to the team responsible for the most memorable interactive entertainment script. Which of these five titles will walk away a winner on February 19? More »


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Portal 2 Snags Gamasutra’s Game Of The Year

5:00AM December 24, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

The industry and design-focused publication Gamasutra has released their list of the top 10 games of the year, with Valve’s Portal 2 coming in at the top. More »


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No TV? Watch The Spike Video Game Awards Here, Live [Update]

8:00AM December 11, 2011 | Owen Good

If you’re somewhere without a cable television or, worse, no television at all, you can still follow the action from tonight’s 2011 Spike Video Game Awards live, right here. Courtesy of Spike and MTV Networks, we’re glad to bring you live streaming video of the broadcast. More »


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2011 Gamers Played Modern Warfare 3 The Most, Skyrim The Longest

6:20AM December 10, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Video game social network and stat tracking service Raptr has announced the winners of its 2011 Most Played Games awards, and while overall gamers spent more time playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 than any other 2011 title, it’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that walked home with the Most Played Game of 2011 award. How’s that work? More »


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The Video Game Awards Nominees For 2011

5:20AM November 17, 2011 | Brian Crecente

The nominees for 2011′s Video Game Awards include a number of expected and unexpected titles. This full list doesn’t just include the nominees for game of the year, and best game for each platform, but the titles that stood out in their particular genres. More »


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The Sports Video Games Of The Year

7:00AM November 6, 2011 | Owen Good

Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honours, the uncommon diversity of sports video games support a class of awards unique to the genre. These are Kotaku’s Stick Jockey Sports Video Games of the Year. More »


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LA Noire Wins Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Award

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1:30PM October 15, 2011 | Logan Booker

It’s not in the business of making games any more and owes its employees and creditors a truckload of cash, but these niggling issues haven’t stopped Team Bondi from picking up a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics for its MotionScan technology in LA Noire. More »


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The UK’s Game Media Awards Announce Its Finalists

9:40AM August 12, 2011 | Joshua Rivera

On October 26th, Develop and MCV will announce the winners of the UK Game Media Awards at a swanky reception that will permit those lucky few to use the prefix “award-winning” in conjunction with their job titles/publications. Click through to see the nominees. [Develop]


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Farm, Chill, Whatever—It’s All Cool With Facebook Game Pot Farm

10:30AM April 19, 2011 | Drew Cohen

Virtual agriculture has recently become a bit more spliffy. More »