Game industry business news

A telling job listing posted to theZeniMax careers pagehas revealed Bethesda’s interest in hiring programmers for an unannounced title on next-generation consoles. The game studio is seeking those with at least five years of experience in the field, as well as extensive work logged programming/optimizing for Xbox 360 and PS3. …

Sony is working on an issue causing Playstation Plus members to receive error codes when attempting to access their gifted, downloadable Minis on the Vita. Multiple users have reported the issue on the Playstation Europe forums, with nearly uniform descriptions from all reporting problems. "We are aware of the issue, …

Free-to-play mech game receives $10m in funding

'Future Generation' console programmers wanted

Hilleman takes wider view: Problems for any games firm puts whole sector in negative light

Just one year ago it seemed that Facebook WAS gaming, but 12 months down the line and it looks as if playing games on the world’s leading social network is on the decline. A new report from IHS Screen Digest Media Research claims that at the end of 2010 around …

Space 'very limited' for viewings of the next-gen tech

Controversial US analyst Michael Pachter has reiterated his assertion that Nintendo is in disarray”. He initially made the claim during a speech at the Ayzenberg A-List Summit 2012. Following the predictable outrage on games forum Neogaf Pachter chimed in to defend his remarks. I believe (and please feel free to …

We take a look inside the powerful development tool Unreal Engine 3

'You don't want to worry about the people who were never going to pay you' says Seamless Entertainment boss