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Platform-holder Sony is aggressively courting developers around the world to work on digitally distributed games for PSP in a bid to grow the software offer on its handheld. And, MCV’s sister site Develop has also revealed, the firm is planning to introduce a streamlined content pipeline for the platform – …

The traditional console hardware cycle is broken – this we know. But veteran games developer Matt Spall yesterday went one further yesterday at the Develop Conference, claiming that we will never see another ‘traditional’ console coming to the market.

 Speaking of the rising importance of cloud computing, which was made …

Develop Conference 2009: Speaking in a panel at the Evolve event in Brighton, TinRaven’s co-founder Niall Fraser has defended the practice of releasing games for the lowest possible prices. Fraser’s comments emerged as the panel discussed monetisation through iPhone games. 59p titles are often criticised for undermining the potential of …

Speaking at her keynote at the Develop Conference 2009’s Games/Edu strand Alice Taylor, commissioning editor for education at Channel 4, has pointed to the potential educational games offer as revenue generators. "Educational games could be a license to print money, or at least something like that," claimed Taylor. "95 per …

Speaking in a panel at the Develop Conference 2009, Playfish CEO Kristian Segerstrale as revealed he is yet to be convinced by the prospect of the Xbox 360’s forthcoming social networking service, Facebook Connect. To read the full stroy, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.

No-one even knew that hit GameCube, PS2 and Wii outing Resident Evil 4 was heading to iPhone until it was unexpectedly released on the App Store earlier this week.

 Tough luck if you missed it though as the game was removed from the Japanese portal moments later. The game appears …

The next piece of fresh downloadable content destined for Fallout 3 will be released on Xbox Live on August 3rd, priced at 800 MS Points (6.80). Called Mothership Zeta, the expansion sees adventurers stumbling across a downed alien spaceship and subsequently being kidnapped by its orbiting alien cousins. As well …

HMV plans to launch over 30 new Gamerbase areas in its stores this year – starting with the opening of this week’s Glasgow branch. The Gamerbase ‘games experience zones’ offer multiplayer and online gaming in-store, and the initiative was voted the winner in the Retail Innovation category of this year’s …

Physical media is at the sunset of its lifespan. Eventually, all games will be based online. That was the view of industry veteran, and Gaikai founder, David Perry. Perry was speaking at an opening keynote at the fourth annual Develop Conference in Brighton, UK. In an address entitled Embracing the …

Its management team tried to fight it off, but the collapse of Midway has finally caught up with its Newcastle studio – and today it was put into administration. MCV’s sister site Develop understands that Midway CEO himself Matt Booty broke the news to the team this morning, and that …