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The debut Gamescom event in 2009 couldn’t have gone any better, with some 245,000 visitors and 458 exhibitors from 31 countries making it the largest games trade fair in the world. The third Gamescom event kicks off next week on Wednesday August 17th, 2011, and will run until Sunday August …

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive said to be readying for Q1 2012 release

Koelnmesse has announced that this year’s Gamescom will play host to more than 550 exhibitors. The organisers behind the Cologne event proudly declare that this is a ten per cent increase on the 505 firms that attended Gamescom 2010. This year’s exhibitors will be representing 40 countries – up from …

After showing some impressive resilience over the last few months, the US games market has been brought crashing back to earth. NPD reports that for the month of July the games market was down 26 per cent year-on-year with a value if just $797.7m. That’s the worst single month since …

In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, the search is on for Google Chromebook Ambassadors, Havok’s Mike Walsh joins Xaitment and Koelnmesse hires a new COO. INFINITE HIRING GOOGLE AMBASSADORS Positions are now available for three Google Chromebook Brand Ambassadors located. The successful applicants …

MCV speaks to the people behind the hit horror series Shinji Mikami and his team redefined the survival horror genre when they developed Biohazard – aka, Resident Evil – in 1996. Not that anyone expected it at the time. Resident Evil was loosely based on a niche Japanese-only 1989 Famicom …

Love or loathe it, the Resident Evil movie franchise is a rare example of a video game series that’s actually made a name for itself in Hollywood. It has succeeded where Prince of Persia, Doom, Tomb Raider and countless others have failed. It is the exception that proves the rule, …

Dare to be Digital 2011 team The Weather Factory talks exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title The Balloonist.

Jeff Karp, an executive at the centre of EA’s social games output, is in the process of leaving the company to join Zynga, Develop understands. A US source, who engages with EA at senior levels, said Karp has signalled his intention to leave and will imminently join the San Francisco …

Amazon has announced that pre-orders for EA’s Battlefield 3 are currently tracking at 2,302 per cent above Battlefield 2. It’s an early vindication of the time and money EA has already put into its marketing activity. It seems that the risk of going so early with the hugely expensive FA …