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Creative agency Target Media has created six new positions to cope with fresh demand from clients. These new recruits will develop and manage the firm’s games, films, kids and digital portfolio. Digital account executive David Salman will be responsible for video game clients such as Bethesda and Codemasters. New television …

This is the latest of a series of articles from MoMinis to coincide with the launch of its $15,000 Mobile Game Development Contest – GameCast 2011. Find out more about the contest here. How does GetJar work? We allow developers to upload and promote apps for platforms including Android, Blackberry, …

We profile Rovio Mobile, Codemasters Birmingham, Playfish, Eurocom, Naturalmotion Games, Ubisoft Paris, Digital Goldfish and Criterion

Microsoft will at a conference next month discuss the possibility of asynchronous online gaming across multiple platforms including Xbox 360. "Cross-platform gameplay provides publishers with a unique opportunity to delight players on any device, at any time, wherever they are," the description of the Asynchronous Gaming with Xbox Live talk …

The teenager arrested in connection with a recent craze of website hacks will have his possessions examined for evidence linking him to the PSN attack, Scotland Yard has told Develop. The Metropolitan Police today arrested a 19 year-old Essex man in connection with a wave of website security breaches. A …

A faceless and compassion free corporation whose only interest is separating you from your cash. If that’s your perception of Activision, you’re one of the people that Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg wants to win over. "Who would be wished to be cast as the bad guy in your own …

Ben Cousins, the former studio head at British outfit EA Easy, has joined mobile games group Ngmoco. Cousins, who left EA in March, is now tasked with running and raising Ngmoco’s new Stockholm-based studio. Much of the studio’s work will be focused on building content for the social gaming platform …

The man behind last week’s controversial PR blacklisting debate has written a piece attempting to explain why it happened and how the PR games process works. Last week US PR agency The Redner Group openly stated on Twitter that it would blacklist – as in, stop sending review code – …

We’re all happy to complain about developers being cagey and withholding information but when they do commit the cardinal sin of speaking frankly we run headlines like this. In an interview with GamingUnion, Microsoft Game Studios head Peter Molyneux made the frank and overtly sensible admission that Kinect is not …

In a rare bit of positive news coverage for the sector, a piece penned by BBC News Washington DC correspondent Tom Geoghegan has named games as one of the key reasons why crime has declined in the US. Recent FBI figures show a sharp drop in murder and robbery rates …