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Bungie’s composer Marty O’Donnell has seen his shares return to him. O’Donnell, who has been with the company from the start and has worked across Halo and Destiny, left the company earlier this year. Bungie said they parted on good terms, but clearly that was a bit of a fib. …

Court rules that Halo studio was wrong to strip shares from Marty O'Donnell

Another week, another Resident Evil game. This time Capcom looks set to release Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (or Biohazard Revelations 2, as the series is called in Japan). The game was leaked on the official has surfaced on a number of European retail websites, before being pulled. But then it …

31,500 trade attendees head to consumer show in Cologne

IGDA poll shows developers would prefer to work at Half-Life studio than their own company

Intel Developer Blog: How you can experience the user experience before launch through the Intel XDK App Preview

Sony confirms unspecified number of job losses

The initial 900P resolution of Diablo 3 was unacceptable, Microsoft told Blizzard. It meant the hit PC publisher worked directly with Xbox in an effort to bump the resolution to 1080p. It is in contrast to previous Microsoft statements, who have said that they ‘struggle to see the difference’ between …

Game developers would rather work for Valve than for their own company, a new IGDA poll has found. The latest International Game Developers Association’s annual Developer Satisfaction Survey shows that Valve topped a list of several work destinations, including the runner-up selection of my own company.” The survey polled 2,200 …

Hit 3DS JRPG series Yokai Watch will make its western debut sometime next year, developer Level-5 has revealed. Gematsu reports Level-5 CEO and president Akihiro Hino confirmed the news to fans, stating that the games have had big appeal” both within and outside of Japan’s market. In regards foreign markets, …