Publishing

Epic has revealed that Gears of War 2 has sold four million units worldwide in just two months. The figure means that the game has performed double that of the first title, which sold through two million copies in the same period. Global product manager Guy Welch told GameDaily: The …

Distribution has gone through some drastic changes over the last six months, with the sad demise of EUK and Pinnacle. However, there are a number of new smaller distributors that offer their own unique service to a number of sectors in the marketplace. To begin with you need to look …

HMV has been expanding into games over the past few years, which means we’ve also been recruiting more staff who can support our games offer. To sustain a specialist service you need specialist knowledge underpinned by a real passion for the product – so that’s our starting point for any …

Let’s be honest: getting a job in games development isn’t easy. While the industry is fond of griping that there aren’t enough skilled people to go around, that doesn’t mean that they’ll hire anyone. But it’s certainly not impossible, so here’s some advice that should help… PROGRAMMINGThe industry is clamouring …

We operate in a very close knit niche market which is very sociable and takes networking very seriously. We all know a lot of people, who know someone that we know and usually someone that knows our boss… which in itself causes concern when you are looking to move companies, …

Sony is labelling 2008 as a year of ‘continued momentum’ in North America as NPD stats showed that total PS3 hardware sales for the territory were up 40 per cent on 2007, with software sales climbing 115 per cent year-on-year. However, PS3’s December sales of 726,000 units, up an impressive …

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