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Strategy guides for a major blockbuster game, eh? Who’d have thought it? Brady Games has won the rights to publish the official guide to Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV. In fact, it’s rolling out two in time for the game’s September 17th debut. The Signature Series guide features a …

The average internet user from anywhere in the world enjoys a connection speed of 3.1Mbps. That’s according to a new report from Akamai entitled The State of the Internet. It’s the first time the global average has surpassed 3Mbps. The global peak speed averages out at 18.4Mbps. The UK misses …

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Motion Capture hardware strives to take high end facial capture to studios of every size

Voting platform not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, says Tom Bui

The Develop 100 has been published since 2005, and over eight years has chronicled the world’s top studios based on a variety of different metrics. We have analysed the top studios around the world through criteria such as UK retail revenues, reputation, review scores, general standing in the industry and …

Developers from console giant's home country unable to release titles on Wii U

Publisher EA has predicted a slight dip in annual sales of its key sports IPs thanks to the upcoming transition to next-gen consoles. Furthermore, EA president and COO Peter Moore described pre-orders for current-gen EA Sports titles as soft” in a call with investors last night. We’re seeing softness, in …

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 design director David Vonderhaar has received death threats regarding tweaks made to weapon balancing in the game’s most recent patch. Let’s put that into perspective. A developer of video games has made some minor alterations to how three weapons behave in said video game. …

Enter, stranger! A bygone favourite of children’s TV is to make a one-off return for YouTube’s Geek Week next month. The Guardian reports that Knightmare, popular in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, is one of many popular shows and IPs that will make a temporary return. It will be …