Game industry business news

Online retailer and technology firm Amazon is to open a new digital media innovation hub in the UK, it has revealed. To be based in London, the 47,000 square ft. centre will house teams of software development engineers, user interface experts and graphi designers. Employees at the studio will work …

Microsoft has announced that Xbox 360 title Dance Central 3 will be released in Europe and the UK on October 19th. It will arrive in the US a few days earlier on October 16th. The game will include 40 tracks on the disc, with 11 new tracks having been announced …

Hang on – this isn’t how it’s supposed to work, is it? In an age where many are happy to predict the death of the High Street, digital games retailer Green Man Gaming is going the other direction, having announced its expansion into the boxed games market. The strategy is …

Centre to work on the creation of interactive digital services for consoles and smartphones

Specialist retailer Games the Shop has revealed its bestselling games for the first quarter of 2012-13 (April to June 2012). While the retailer didn’t release a consolidated list of top sellers, it did reveal the top ten sellers for five platforms – PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and PS2. Max …

E-Xpress Interactive will hold its annual games showcase for trade partners – Interact 2012, on 27th July. The event, which will be held in Mumbai, will give retailers the opportunity to demo and learn more about the many games set to release via E-Xpress Interactive during the remainder of 2012-13. …

The Madden NFL series has survived a fierce legal dispute between EA and the NFL. A $27m settlement fee has been paid, according to Kotaku, ending a four-year class action lawsuit that argued the deal was an illegal monopoly. The most crucial news for gamers is that EA has managed …

Sony has announced some additional server shutdown that will see the online functionality of four titles gone for good. The highest profile casualty is PS3 racer MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, which from October 1st will see its online modes inaccessible. The game was first released in 2008. Three other games to …

It was only a matter of time until ArmA II zombie mod DayZ spawned a fully-fledged stand-alone title. And that’s exactly what we have in the form of The War Z, which IGN reports is being developed by previously unheard of Hammerpoint Interactive and published by the little-known Arktos Entertainment. …

Lobbying for this year’s Games Media Awards has now closed, with hundreds of individuals from across the games press – and broader industry – nominating the UK’s writers, mags, websites and more for one of the sector’s top accolades. Now it’s in the hands of the judges. As ever, the …