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Specialist game retailers may be dead in Japan by the end of the decade, it has been warned. Kotaku reports that a Japanese games retail employee named Osho who works in sales for games chain Pao believes that the combined threat of online retail (specifically Amazon), the rise of digital …

MCV’s Brit List will return at the end of January – but this time it will honour the 100 most influential women in the games industry. We launched the first Brit List in March, and it fast became the most-read issue of MCV of all time. Our next Brit List …

App Game Kit 2, Fuse, Substance Designer, Leadwerks and more slash costs

The close relationship between Google’s advertising and search businesses must be broken, the European Parliament has ruled. The body first revealed plans for the "unbundling of search engines from other commercial services" last week but has now approved the proposal. It wishes to ensure "competitive conditions within the digital single …

Create your ideal user interface with the help of these programs

Takashi Sensui is resigning as the head of Xbox Japan following Xbox One’s struggle to take off in the region. Kotaku reports that Famitsu says that the exec, who took charge of Xbox’s Japanese operations in 2006, will remain at Microsoft as manager for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft’s …

Peter Molyneux and InnoGames' Christoph Schmidt and Fabio Lo Zito discuss how to retain employees for the long-term

The owner of mobile network 3 and telecoms giant BT appear to be on the brink of a battle to acquire either the EE or O2 mobile networks. The surprise news that BT was in talks to acquire O2 – a network it once co-owned but previously sold to Telefonica …

But exec will continue working at Microsoft's US HQ

"An Englishman, an American and an Australian…" It sounds like the opening line from a gag, but is in fact the foundation on which IGN’s biggest innovation of the last 12 months has been built. IGN First – our equivalent of a magazine front cover, with a full four-weeks of …