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Digikhel has announced its first iOS game – a deep space mining arcade game titled Orion’s Gold. The game is set in a distant future, where all of Earth’s natural resources are depleted and humans must venture to the dangerous Orion’s Belt to mine for precious metals. Gameplay involves mining …

Denmark-based company GameAnalytics has announced the appointment of PopCap’s Allison Bilas as its new vice president of product. Bilas joined PopCap in 2010 as a social games business analyst, later rising to become senior manager of the studio’s game analytics department. She’s credited for several titles, including Bejeweled Blitz and …

Naughty Dog’s PS3-exclusive title The Last of Us is being adapted into a live-action film for the big screen, with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures production company on board to produce. Deadline reports The Last of US creative director Neil Druckmann is attached to write the film’s script, and Sony …

Disney Interactive has laid off more than 25 per cent of its workforce as part of major restructuring, the company has confirmed. It was reported nearly a month ago that Disney was preparing to layoff several hundred” employees, and it seems the info was spot on – specifically concerning Playdom. …

Nautilus Mobile’s Real Cricket 14 will release on 31st March for Android, followed by an iOS release on 20th April. Real Cricket 14 features a unique hand-drawn 2D art style that took Nautilus artists over six months to perfect. However, despite being a mobile game with 2D visuals, it aims …

Sony has announced that SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton will leave the company at the end of March. The decision is as a result of a mutual agreement not to renew their contractual relationship”. Tretton has been at SCEA since its creation in 1995. Current executive VP and COO …

UK trade body UKIE has named Dan Wood its new COO. Wood joined UKIE in 2010 as its head of communications and public affairs, and during his time he has launched the Video Games Ambassadors scheme, co-ordinating UKIE’s lobbying efforts on tax relief and setting up the Next Gen Skills …

Sony and Ubisoft have confirmed both PS4 and PS3 hardware bundles to accompany the launch of Watch Dogs on May 27th in the UK. Both will include the 60 minutes of additional content for the game that is available only on PlayStation. Over the last few months, our development team …

Ahead of TIGA’s Games Summit this Friday, for which Develop is the media partner, TIGA CEO Dr. Richard Wilson discusses the rationale behind the event and the issues those supporting the Summit are seeking to address.

Ubisoft’s open world action game will arrive just before E3 2014, after missing the PS4 and Xbox One launches