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Free Radical and Frontier slam 'jumble sale' second-hand games market

Midway has lined up a heavyweight marketing campaign for upcoming shooter Unreal Tournament III. Promotional activity will kick off at fast-growing championship gaming centre Omega Sektor in Birmingham, as part of what the publisher is calling a ‘massive European-wide launch’. UT3 tournaments will take place across the continent, whilst the …

Representatives from Crytek, Blitz and Ninja Theory to present talks

101 applications for funding sought in 2007 alone

Euro production VP also reaffirms plan to treble games spending and says deals with local studios are already signed

A year after acquisition, how is Black Rock Studio changing under the guidance of Disney and how does that play into House of Mouseâ??s plans for games? We spoke to Tony Beckwith, studio chief, and Disneyâ??s VP of European production Ed Bainbridge to find outâ?¦

Free-to-play Exteel and Dungeon Runners boosted by ads

Global development studios to use Audiokineticâ??s middleware

Though there’s been no indication that Manhunt 2 publisher Rockstar is considering such action, it has been revealed that an 23 year old legal ruling means that it would be perfectly legal for the publisher to offer its controversial title for download. The Register reports that downloadable games are not …

As the importance of digital distribution continues to grow, UK publisher Codemasters has become the latest big name label to sign up to Valve’s popular online distribution service Steam. The first Codies content to appear on the network in Europe will be Clive Barker’s Jericho, which will be released online …