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Ben Cousins, the general manager of EA’s free-to-play division Easy Studios, has lashed out the high price business model that continues to boss the console market. I can’t think of anything more exploitative than gating all of your content behind having to pay someone $60," he told Rock Paper Shotgun. …

Hideki Konno insists Nintendo has no plans to join the low pricepoint gaming model

Dragon Age fans have accused Electronic Arts and BioWare of hiding controversial DRM measures in their latest release. According to anti-DRM consumer watchdog Reclaim Your Game, the recently released Dragon Age II contains the SecuROM-related Sony Release Control and have protested that the game’s developer and publisher failed to inform …

Sledgehammer Games has hired a new community manager, who will no doubt be working on the studio’s unannounced Call of Duty project. The new recruit is Guy Beahm, who previously worked as premiere director at Machinima.com. He will now be responsible for developing and managing the online community for any …

A look at Unreal Engine 3's support for a new wave of mobile gaming

One difference Sony DADC says it can offer is a direct-to-consumer postal service for small retailers. It gives indies – who may be low on stock or tight for space – the option of ordering a product from Sony DADC and getting it delivered to their customer’s door. If somebody …

How important is the games market to Sony DADC?Darren Houghton, general manager: Absolutely critical. Whilst we’re here to support the whole entertainment industry, we see games as a potential for growth. At the moment about 65 per cent of our UK business is film, around 25 per cent is music …

Mysterious listing about a new hardware project points to unconfirmed launch date

A somewhat ambiguous posting on a web portfolio of a designer currently working for Microsoft has got tongues wagging about a potential 2015 launch date for the next Xbox console. Posted by Ben Peterson, who was recently recruited to work at Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, the art (spotted by ZDNet) …

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