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There will be many challenges facing the country’s games industry as the first years of the new decade start to unfold. One thing is for sure, these will be important times as our business fully comes of age, matures and continues to give the longer-established entertainment industries a real run …

Three members of Take-Two’s Board of Directors will leave their roles following a request from stockholder Carl Icahn, who holds a 11.3 per cent stake in the firm. Chief executive officer Ben Feder is one of the the three to step down, although will continue his CEO role for the …

Outspoken MP comprehensively mocked and ridiculed by execs, developers and politicians

Microsoft has claimed that the total time spent by gamers using its Xbox Live service has surpassed 17 billion hours. Company employee Trixie360 added on her Twitter: That’s more than two hours for every person on the planet.” G4 observed that this equates to around 2 million years, or 850 …

Iconic Russian puzzler Tetris, first developed in 1984, has now achieved 100m paid downloads across all mobile formats since EA Mobile bagged the mobile rights in 2005. It was first made available for mobile by G-Mode in Japan in 2001, so the lifetime sales total is actually even greater than …

Wow! What an end to a year and a decade. Four industry luminaries were awarded honours in the New Year Honours list: Rod Cousens, Paul and Oliver Collyer and my predecessor, Paul Jackson. Congratulations to them all for the well-deserved recognition for their outstanding contribution to our industry. Modern Warfare …

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake is still on track for a worldwide release this spring, developer Remedy Entertainment has reiterated. The confirmation comes from CFO Mika Reini who was speaking in a live web chat, as spotted by Videogamer. The exec went on to stress that the studio very …

2009 was a turbulent year for the industry’s workforce, with publishers and developers falling to economic troubles and jobs cut across the board. But now that the worst of recession are behind us, recruitment agencies are optimistic that this year will see a significant improvement. MCV spoke to OPM Recruitment’s …

As an aside to his current frenzied press schedule to promote his latest film The Lovely Bones, film director Peter Jackson has made the surprise admission that he’s currently getting more enjoyment out of his consoles than he is from the cinema. I’m enjoying these games more than I am …

Our tour of London's developers stops off at Eiconic's remote studio