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Former Studio Liverpool and Wipeout developers have opened a new studio called Firesprite. As reported byIGN, the new company is led by MD Graeme Ankers, and it has already been at work developing Sony’s Studio Japan with work on PS4 title The Playroom. The developer has already built a team …

Former Games TM editor Samuel Roberts is the new editor of Future mag PC Gamer. His previous roles include deputy editor at Play magazine and SciFiNow. He was also a finalist in the Rising Star category at the 2009 Games Media Awards. He begins at PC Gamer on December 11th. …

Gamesaid has begun a Christmas campaign to get games firms to donate unwanted merchandise to its eBay activity. The UK games industry charity raises money throughout the year and is distributed annually, as per the votes of Gamesaid members. Almost 1m has been raised since Gamesaid was founded five years …

An interview with managing director Robert Troughton on the UK studio’s origins

Play.com owner Rakuten has claimed that Nintendo’s Wii U has seen a 75 per cent sales spike in October. The company predicts that Wii U and iPad will be more popular than Xbox One and PS4 amongst children this Christmas. It adds that a Twitter analysis has revealed that its …

Graeme Ankers heads up new company staffing 20 employees

30 employees dismissed as branch closes after two years of operation

A U.S. judge has approved Atari’s plan to leave bankruptcy protection a little less than a year after filing for Chapter 11 in January. The Wall Street Journal reportsthat Judge James Peck of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan not only signed off on the deal Thursday, but actually thanked …

Judge thanks parties for their handling of 'difficult case'

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