Publishing

EA Maxis has confirmed it will be releasing four new titles in the Spore series before the end of 2009, including expansion packs and standalone products and, for the first time, a Wii iteration of the franchise. Spore senior producer Morgan Roarty revealed the four releases will be spread across …

Arsenal fans may be able to watch instant replays of goals and tackles on their PSP while attending matches at the team’s Emirates Stadium. The club’s commercial director Adrian Ford said a Sony-developed application will enable PSP owners to watch near-instant replays, view data and statistics and receive live streaming …

LONDON FOCUS: Today Develop looks at SCE London Studio and Partnertrans

After announcing yesterday that a PS3 hardware bundle featuring the game is heading to the UK , SCEE has now confirmed that long-awaited FPS Killzone 2 will be released on February 27th. That’s the same date the game will arrive at retail in North America, and has been presumed to …

Rapidly globalising Japanese publisher signs deal with Monumental

EA’s previously revealed cost-cutting measures continue to take effect, with Canadian studio Black Box and Florida-based team Tiburon apparently the latest to see job cuts. Click here to visit Developmag.com for the complete story .

And it’s not just one or two women in senior industry roles dragging the average up, either – our survey included women working at all levels in all parts of the industry. At the same time, it was also quite hard to get any senior publishing reps to talk on …

If you were to ask most people in the industry to name a UK publisher which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary, that’s still independent, has a growing development studio, achieved a top three hit on PSP last year and announced a major licensing agreement with ITV, they’d be hard-pushed …

Bomberman Land â??dramatically improvedâ?? by development and porting tool

LONDON FOCUS: Today Develop looks at Gamewax and Mediatonic