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Set for 10.30am on Tuesday May 4th at the Hoxton Hotel, London, senior execs will argue that buyers and reporters must come to Cologne in August for the biggest consumer and trade event in Europe ahead of planning for Q4. Senior execs will be there to spread the word, namely …

A further eight leave, meaning a quarter of the studio has departed

Absolute genius but deeply flawed – that’s the verdict of Revolution Software’s acclaimed development star Charles Cecil when asked by MCV what he though of Sony’s recent chart-topper Heavy Rain. Half way through I thought it was a work of absolute genius,” Cecil told MCV. When I finished it, I …

Striking the balance between responsible reporting and hunting for those all elusive web clicks is a tough one. All news-driven websites tread the line. Sometimes those gambles pay off. Other times they don’t. But rarely do they backfire as spectacularly as they have for Gizmodo’s Jason Chen. The tech site …

Action movie kingpin Jerry Bruckheimer believes games and movies will be visually interchangeable within the next decade. Promoting his new games-related movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, he told HeyUGuys, "I really believe in the next ten years you won’t be able to tell the difference between movies …

First he was positive that the Conservatives would introduce game tax breaks, now Ed Vaizey – shadow spokesperson for the game industry – is vehement. Yet the Tory MP, speaking in response to criticisms earlier today, couldn’t promise that a game industry ‘mini-manifesto’ would be released before the general election. …

Israel has lifted its ban on the Apple iPad two weeks after customs began confiscating the device due to concerns about the strength of its wi-fi signal. Officials started allowing citizens and visitors to bring the device into the country yesterday, Reuters reports. "Following the completion of intensive technical scrutiny, …

The value of the UK games software market fell in March by seven per cent year-on-year. But it was still a great month of major releases, while EA and Square Enix both saw big gains. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was the runaway success story of the month with most copies …

The value of the UK games software market fell in March by seven per cent year-on-year. But it was still a great month of major releases, while EA and Square Enix both saw big gains. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was the runaway success story of the month with most copies …

Dundee developer Cohort Studios is busy building one of the first PlayStation Move titles to be released – and the group has already heaped praise on Sony’s motion control device. The PlayStation Move is a great piece of hardware,” says studio CEO Lol Scragg. Having used both controllers a lot, …