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Read More »Rage pushes Xbox 360 installs to the limit
Like all other Xbox 360 games, id Software’s sandbox shooter Rage will allow gamers to install it onto their console’s HDD. Unlike other games, however, it’s going to require a huge amount of space. ShopTo reckons that in total the game could require as much as 22GB as part of …
Read More »No London Games Festival in 2011
UK video games trade body UKIE has announced that there will be no London Games Festival this year. It will be the first time in six years that the event hasn’t taken place. However, UKIE has announced that a 2012 LGF has been confirmed and will take place during the …
Read More »MCV GameTime (week ending August 5th)
We look at the latest TV advertising activity for games from March to July 17th, plus a look at the Top Ten games advertisers of 2011 so far. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. This week we take a look at …
Read More »Rising Star plots more cult Cave shooters
Japanese specialist Rising Star wants to bring more games from cult studio Cave to the UK. The publisher will release DoDonPachi Resurrection in the UK this year. It is the second Cave game to be handled by Rising Star, with the company having released Deathsmiles on Xbox 360 earlier this …
Read More »Blitz calls time on indie publishing label
Blitz Games Studios is to wind down and close its 1UP initiative, which helped small studios develop, distribute, and promote their games. What’s changed is that the market seems to have shifted quite a lot in the way games are sold,” 1UP producer Neil Holmes told Develop, where you can …
Read More »Looters storm GAME and HMV in North London
Both GAME and HMV were amongst the dozens of retailers attacked as part of the widespread rioting that hit parts of North London this weekend. On Saturday night there was major disruption in Tottenham, with violence spreading as far as Wood Green. As part of that attack the GAME outlet …
Read More »Develop 119: Markus Persson on fame and fortune
July edition includes interviews with Notch, Ian Livingstone and BlitzTech
Read More »UK CHARTS: There’s no stopping Zumba
With the release schedule utterly stagnant ahead of its reignition at the end of the month, there was little around to challenge 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness which still sits pretty at the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. That’s an amazing eight consecutive weeks …
Read More »Shane Kim joins Zipline board
Ex-Microsoft man to help broker studio deals
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