Publishing

Social games giant streamlining operations to 'make Zynga into an internet treasure'

Boston studio shuttered as two thirds of Austin studio staff cut

Users to pay for audio input device and songs

The next game in the SingStar series launches this week – and it’s free (sort of). The SingStar client will be available to download to the PS3 Cross Media Bar at no cost, consumers will just need to fork out for an ‘audio-input device’ and the songs. Short demo versions …

Xbox 720 will likely launch with cut-price hardware subsidised through monthly subscriptions. That’s the impression given by Microsoft in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in which it describes such retail models as pivotal to our business” and outlines plans to roll the deals out across the whole of …

Epic Japan to provide local support and work directly with studios

Medal of Honor: Warfighter for Xbox 360 will arrive in India on 26th October as earlier planned and three days before the PlayStation and PC versions. A few days ago we reported that the PlayStation and PC versions of Warfighter as well as Need for Speed: Most Wanted would be …

CEO Feargus Urquhart on crowdfunding, publishers and failed projects

Develop speaks to the indie outfit on collaborating with Microsoft without a penny to spend

Square Enix has blocked access to its Official Merchandise store following a suspected hacker attack. The publisher says that its European customer details were not compromised – in fact it has not yet found evidence of any customer details being compromised. We have reason to believe that unknown parties have …