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Since at least Final Fantasy VII, an argument has been abroad that ‘emotional’ content is what signals (or will signal) videogames’ ‘maturity’. But this idea, lately rampant in the mainstream coverage of Chubby Drizzle, ...

News Corporation has hired digital media veteran Sean Ryan to set up and manage the company’s new games unit.A former CEO of social network service Meez and blogging platform LiveJournal, Ryan is now News Corp. Digital’s executive vice pr...

Rock Band 3 lead designer Dan Teasdale has left Harmonix to do more hands on work at The Maw and 'Splosion Man developer Twisted Pixel.read more

Mythic Entertainment, also previously named EA Mythic, is now called Bioware Mythic.The news was revealed by Warhammer Online producer Carrie Gouskos in a letter to the game's community, in which she said that the company is to take over management o...

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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would like to break the walled gardens of online console services like Xbox Live.The executive told the Financial Times he’s frustrated by existing business models that see companies like Microsoft benefiting most fr...

Independent pressure group Gamers’ Voice is working with TIGA on the trade association’s efforts to persuade the UK’s coalition government to introduce games tax relief.Formed by Tom Watson MP in November 2009 , Gamers’ Voice ...

Lionhead Studios boss Peter Molyneux will demo Fable III at next week’s Develop conference in Brighton.He’ll discuss how the game’s development team has married story, cast and simulation. His talk will culminate in the exclusive UK...

The NPD Group has released a top 20 software sales chart for May, following the publication of the top ten last Friday.The chart shows that the Xbox 360 version of Capcom's Lost Planet 2 debuted at 11, while Sony's PS3-exclusive ModNation Racers rank...

While software sales have fallen during 2010, the quality of games released is up year-on-year, according to a new report from review aggregator Metacritic.US software sales to the end of May were down six per cent year-on-year, but Metacritic says t...

Warner’s Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 held the top spot on the UK all formats chart during the week ended July 3, according to data from GfK Chart-Track.Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2 were non-movers in second and third respective...

Modern Warfare 2 takes the lead back from Red Dead Redemption, but Lego Harry Potter holds its own. Whilst Lego Harry Potter may have usurped Red Dead Redemption in this week's sales chart, it's Modern Warfare 2 that's getting all the mentions. UK ...

With a CV including System Shock and Deus Ex, the revelation that Warren Spector, co-founder of Junction Point Studios, was turning his attentions to a game based on Disney's most cherished character was almost as surreal as the intial concept art. r...

UK games industry trade association TIGA has picked up two awards at the annual Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards in London.TIGA was awarded ‘The Member Recruitment Award’ and the top award ‘Trade Association of the Year ...

EDIT: To clarify, this offer is only available for UK subscriptions.Edge publisher Future is currently offering a 50 per cent sale across its entire range of gaming magazines.Throughout July you can pick up OPM, OXM, ONM, Edge, PC Gamer, GamesMaster,...

Sony Computer Entertainment senior director Mick Hocking will deliver a presentation entitled ‘3D: The Next Dimension in Gaming’ at the Develop conference in Brighton on July 15.Hocking, who leads Sony’s WWS stereoscopic 3D team and...

The release of the slim Xbox 360 and price cuts to older models have resulted in “a significant sales spike” for the platform in the US since mid-June, according to Microsoft.“… We are hearing great feedback from retailers th...

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Over two thirds of Japanese consumers say they aren’t planning to buy a 3D TV for their home, according to a recent survey of 8,957 punters.The 67.4 per cent in question said they were turned off by 3D glasses, the high cost of televisions and ...

Xbox 360 enjoyed a significant sales boost in Japan during the week ended June 27 on the back of new hardware and software releases.The launch of the slim Xbox 360 model, price cuts to older ones, and the release of the chart topping Monster Hunter F...

The Walt Disney Company has acquired Palo Alto-based iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch developer Tapulous.The studio specialises in music titles and is best know for Tap Tap Revenge, which Disney says has been installed by more than 30 per cent of iPhone/...

North American console business revenues declined five per cent year-over-year in May to $823.5 million, according to the NPD Group.read more

Red Dead Redemption was the bestselling title in North America in May, clearing 1.5 million sales, according to data from the NPD Group.The Xbox 360 version was the clear frontrunner with 945,900 units sold, ahead of the PS3 edition in second place a...

Nintendo platforms continued to dominate North American hardware sales in May, according to data from the NPD Group.As in April, DS came out on top, shifting 383,700 units versus Wii’s 334,800. Xbox 360 remained ahead of PS3, Microsoft’s ...

Delegates hoping to walk away from this year's conference – which took place within the gleaming steel and glass domes of The Sage, Gatehead – with a clearer sense of where the industry was headed were in for a disappointment. Its overarc...

PlayStation Home is quite a profitable business for Sony, and one the company’s very satisfied with, according to Jack Buser, director of the 3D virtual space.Buser told Gamasutra that console gamers have been very receptive to the virtual good...

Xbox 360 title Monster Hunter Frontier Online debuted atop the Japanese software chart during the week ended June 27.A port of 2007's PC MMO, the subscription-based game moved 93,000 units in its first week, according to sales data from Media Create ...

With the European, north American and Japanese game industries so prominent in people's minds, it’s easy to forget that there are other flourishing markets. read more

DFC Intelligence has issued a pessimistic outlook on Xbox 360’s prospects of cracking the mass market in the analysis firm’s most recent monthly brief.While the platform holder hopes that upcoming motion and voice sensing device Kinect wi...

In a recent Edge column, I returned to three topics that are perennial favourites of mine – challenge, difficulty and progression – with regard to the Japanese RPG Demon’s Souls. Now, as I continue to work my way through Sony’...

Fable III will receive a digital episodic release in addition to a traditional boxed one, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said.read more

Leading Indian game services provider Gameshastra has signalled its global ambitions by expanding to Europe with the opening of a new facility in London, UK.The new location will be headed by industry veteran Martin Ogden, who joins Gameshastra from ...

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has said he’d like to see Nintendo stop bashing 3D glasses and begin promoting 3D technology from a broader perspective.The exec told IGN that Nintendo’s glasses-free 3D vision isn’t t...

It wouldn't be an overstatement to say Activision has been through a few ups and downs over the past few months. Positive news for the company, such as its new partnership with Bungie, has been tempered with the deeply negative - we hardly need menti...

Blizzard believes it could make sense to drop World Of Warcraft’s existing subscription model at some point in the future.Speaking to PC Gamer (via CVG), WOW lead designer Tom Chilton said that the company is aware of the growing popularity of ...

id Software's Rage has picked up five nominations for the Game Critics Awards Best Of E3 2010, followed by Dance Central, Epic Mickey and Portal 2 with four apiece.read more

Retailer Play.com has listed detailed technical specifications of Microsoft's upcoming motion sensing camera Kinect, as provided by “manufacturers”.Play.com suggests the device will be able to track up to six people at a time and "ma...

Lionhead boss and creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe, Peter Molyneux, has moved to clear up the confusion over the status of Kinect project Milo And Kate.read more

Hulu has confirmed rumours that it will offer a new $9.99 per month TV subscription service, Hulu Plus, on multiple devices in the US.It will be made available on iPhone and iPad and is planned to launch on PS3 in July, but Xbox 360 owners will have ...

The UK government’s decision to scrap plans to introduce tax breaks for domestic game development studios has led a number of major publishers to think twice about continuing to invest in the market.read more

Speaking as part of a question and answer session at the Gamehorizon conference in Newcastle, Epic vice president and co-founder Mark Rein suggested that paid-for, and not free-to-play, content was the future of the industry.read more

Aaron Greenberg, director of Xbox product management, says Lionhead’s Milo And Kate is a tech demo that’s unlikely to make it to market.read more

Aspiring developers and old hands alike descended upon Channel 4's headquarters in London on Friday for the first World Of Love indie development conference. read more

Activision executive vice president of studios, Dave Stohl, has spoken of the ongoing rebuilding process at Call Of Duty creator Infinity Ward, which he expects to create “great new franchises in the future”.read more

Speaking in a keynote speech today at the GameHorizon conference in Gateshead, game designer, CEO of Schell Games and one-time Disney theme park attraction creator Jesse Schell continued to show how the world of gaming is merging with the 'real' one....

Sony is making money on PS3 hardware sales for the first time since the console launched in Japan in November 2006."This year is the first time that we are able to cover the cost of the PlayStation 3," Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's Wo...

According to various internet reports, the annual salaries of leading Japanese business figures have just been made publicly available.That’s because companies are now required to disclose in shareholder reports which board members receive pay ...

Capcom Europe COO David Reeves expects the next generation of home game consoles to arrive within three years.read more

Game industry analysts have weighed in with sales forecasts for May 2010 ahead of the release of official US market data from the NPD Group.The research firm delayed the release of sales data by around three weeks to accommodate an upgrade to its IT ...

Eve Online developer CCP has opened a new UK studio in Newcastle.CCP Newcastle will focus on console game development, “charting new paths for gameplay and business models that will breathe new life into connected consoles”, the Icelandic...

32 per cent of UK citizens classify themselves as gamers, according to new statistics released by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) and the Interactive Software Federation of Europe.The pair said that 34 per cent o...

Apple has announced that it sold over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units in the device's first three days on the market.Announced earlier this month, the latest version of the popular smartphone introduces 100 new features, according to the platform holder.r...

Sony is planning to release more HD conversions of PS2 games on PS3 following the success of God Of War Collection.The compilation title – which featured reworked versions of God Of War and God Of War II on a single Blu-ray disc at full 1280 x ...

This year, E3 was a circus of curiosity. From the Kinect event through the Activision party to the launch of the 3DS, we saw all the major companies tackle the problem of using an event as a contemporary promotional vehicle. Now the circus has left t...

Activision Blizzard has become the newest member of UK games industry trade association TIGA.The US publisher is the owner of two UK-based development studios, Liverpool-based Blur developer Bizarre Creations and Leamington Spa-based DJ Hero cre...

PS3 is “doing incredibly well” at retail, according to EA COO and former corporate VP of Xbox Live John Schappert."Since Sony changed the PS3 form factor, rolled out the Kevin Butler marketing campaign, and launched some great conten...

Microsoft believes “hardcore gamers” will be the first to buy Kinect, despite the device being targeted at a mainstream audience.“I think we know that hardcore gamers will be the first to go out and buy it, as they are with any prod...

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has seemingly ruled out a pre-Christmas release for 3DS.Speaking about the company’s new portable during an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the executive said: "It's coming out nex...

With Milo And Kate absent from Kinect's showing at Microsoft's E3 press briefing and a relatively conservative selection of games presented instead, audiences were left wondering where the revolution was. Where is the "stuff that science fiction...

Playdom has purchased Hive7.com, a privately held social gaming startup based in Palo Alto, California.Founded in 2005, Hive7 has developed games such as Knighthood, Youtopia, Kick-Off and Sindicate for social networks like Facebook, Myspace and Bebo...

Warner’s Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 has debuted atop the UK all formats chart, ending Red Dead Redemption’s five week reign.Rockstar’s western, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa all fell one spot during the...

The UK coalition government has stated that the scrapping of proposed tax relief for domestic game developers will save the country £190 million.read more

Square Enix has said that a “closed“ Xbox Live environment means Final Fantasy XIV Online is unlikely to appear on Xbox 360."The main reason why we couldn't go with Xbox 360 was the Xbox Live system," the game’s director H...

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its family-friendly PC MMO Free Realms now has 12 million registered users - up from nine million in March 2010.While free-to-play since launching in April 2009, the  virtual world supports a microtra...

Sony has no plans to use 3D technology in future PSP iterations, according to SCE Worldwide Studios vice president Scott Rohde.“No, no plans for that,” the executive told IndustryGamers. “We just chose to focus on the big 3D in the ...

Format: iPhone, PSPDeveloper: Cobra MobileDirect App Store linkE3 may have been brought to us by Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Nintendo’s staggeringly desirable 3DS, but my flights there and back belonged to something far more modest. Numba is a puzzle...

The launch of iPhone 4 yesterday was somewhat spoilt by concerns over a potential design flaw that can lead to reduced signal reception. The smartphone sports a new antenna design featuring a metal band encasing its outer edge and acting as a 3G and...

Price cuts to Nintendo’s handheld range gave DS sales a significant boost in Japan during the week ended June 20.On June 19 Nintendo dropped the price of the DSi XL by ten per cent to 18,000 yen ($200 / £135) and the cost of the DSi from ...

I'm organising World Of Love, and it's disconcerting me. We're going to get a whole load of indie developers together at Channel 4 today, and it's not going the way events usually do. Everything seems to be much better. Things are not usually like th...

Sony is reportedly close to wrapping up a deal to offer a paid TV service from Hulu on PS3.According to multiple Bloomberg sources, the partnership could be announced as early as next week.US PlayStation Network users would be able to subscribe to a ...

Mark Kingdon has resigned his position as CEO of Second Life creator Linden Lab after two years managing the company.The news follows the announcement earlier this month that the firm is to lay off approximately 30 per cent of its workforce as part o...

Sony Computer Entertanment Europe has released full details of its subscription-based PlayStation Plus service announced at E3.Set to go live on June 29, the new offering will give members a selection of games, discounts, exclusive items from the Pla...

Minister for culture, communications and creative industries Ed Vaizey has said that he’s "disappointed" the coalition government won’t be able to introduce tax breaks for the UK games industry, as announced in its Emergency Bud...

Multiple retailers have called on Microsoft to launch Kinect with a sub-£100 price tag.“Sub-£100 and Kinect will benefit immensely,” Morrisons games buyer Nick Sultanti told MCV. “People are going to compare price points...

Super Mario Galaxy 2 bounced back to the top of the Japanese software chart during the week ended June 20.The Wii sequel moved 53,000 copies, down from 73,000 the previous week when it lost the top spot to Xenoblade, which placed fourth in the latest...

PrimeSense plans to bring the 3D sensing technology it provided for Xbox 360’s Kinect to PCs and televisions in the near future.Vice president Adi Berenson told Engadget that the company’s goal is to enable natural human control over TV-b...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes that a lack of quality games – and not the bad economy – is primarily to blame for slow software sales.read more

Multimedia firm RealNetworks has announced “a significant reorganisation of its business and operational structure” resulting in 85 layoffs, including about 25 per cent of its executive ranks.The firm said in a statement it has consolidat...

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has described 3D and motion controls as “minimal additions” to existing console technology.The executive told GamesIndustry.biz that he thought home stereoscopic 3D was "not bad, but only so-so"...

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has claimed that the company is unconcerned by increased sales momentum for rival consoles as Wii adoption experiences a slowdown.Nintendo sold 20.53 million Wiis in the financial year ended March 31, 20...

China’s Ministry of Culture has outlined a number of strict online gaming regulations set to come into effect on August 1.The clampdown will forbid "unwholesome" content from appearing in online games targeting at those under the age ...

Microsoft knows many consumers are of the opinion that the platform holder hasn’t delivered in the PC games market.Games For Windows Live has been a failure and the company has opted to cancel PC versions of titles such as Alan Wake, suggesting...

Three million iPads have been sold in 80 days, Apple has announced.The tablet device launched in the US on April 3 and internationally on May 28.Apple said that developers have created over 11,000 new apps for iPad, which is also capable of running &...

Microsoft has explained the lack of core-focused Kinect titles by spelling out that the upcoming motion sensing device is targeted at a broader audience.The platform holder told Kotaku that this is a great year for core games on Xbox 360, but said th...

Microsoft has detailed a new Xbox Live family subscription option that will offer four XBL Gold memberships for $99.99.Available this November to coincide with the launch of family friendly Kinect, the family pack will include:• Up to four ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that development costs for high-end 3DS titles may approach Wii levels.That’s down to the increased graphical capabilities the portable has over its predecessors, and not due to the new 3D visual effects...

Everything goes black when you boot Joe Danger for the first time. That was how the game launched, on our retail PS3 and acr...

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Jason Holtman is director of business development at Valve, and is instrumental in the direction of Steam, building publisher and developer relationships and working on signing and marketing games across the platform.read more

Nintendo has sold over six million Wii units in the UK since the console launched almost three years ago, according to newly released data from sales tracker GfK Chart-Track.That makes Wii “the fastest selling videogame console in UK history an...

THQ has appointed Germaine Gioia as senior vice president, licensing and merchandising. Gioia rejoins THQ after serving three years as senior vice president, licensing for Capcom in both the US and Europe.“We are pleased to welcome Germaine bac...

GOA has said that the European servers of Warrior Epic will close as of December 21. In a statement released to the community the publisher blames lack of players as the main reason behind the move.  However, European players can continue playin...

Stock in GameStop fell 7.7 per cent to $22.01 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Bloomberg reports. The drop is being attributed to the fact that Wal-Mart has slashed prices on the top 25 titles by as much as 20 per cent through to Decembe...

EA and DICE have restructured the pricing system behind its popular free-to-play, casual PC shooter Battlefield: Heroes, much to the dismay of the game’s following.read more

THQ and DreamWorks have signed a multi-year, multi-property licensing deal that gives the videogame publisher and developer exclusive worldwide rights to create titles based on DreamWorks Animation’s animated feature films.The deal immediately ...

EA has officially announced that it is rebooting its Medal Of Honor first person shooter franchise.For the first time in its ten year history the series will leave the theatre of WWII in favour of a modern, war-torn Afghanistan setting.Set for releas...

EA has officially announced that it is rebooting its Medal Of Honor first person shooter franchise.For the first time in its ten year history the series will leave the theatre of WWII in favour of a modern, war-torn Afghanistan setting.Set for releas...

Australian developer Fuzzyeyes Studio is said to be on the verge of closing its doors.The Brisbane-headquartered developer has “effectively shut down”, according to Kotaku sources.A former Fuzzyeyes developer also claimed that production ...

Australian developer Fuzzyeyes Studios is said to be on the verge of closing its doors.The Brisbane-headquartered developer has “effectively shut down”, according to Kotaku sources.A former Fuzzyeyes developer also claimed that production...