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Producer joins Mikio Watanabe and Ito Masahito out the door

Studio claims MMO will not be adversely affected as insider shares concerns over title

Kenneth McCulloch taken into custody as police investigation continues

Mark Kern claims WoW team lowered the MMO difficulty curve too much

Microsoft’s Games with Gold program has kicked off with the first free title being offered to Xbox Gold Live members. The game in question is Defense Grid: The Awakening – a 2009 Xbox Live title that normally retails for 800 Microsoft Points. Two free games will be offered each month, …

New estimates paint a very bleak picture for BlackBerry 10. PocketGamer has done some number crunching following BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins’ admission that just 40 per cent (around 2.7m) of the 6.8m smartphones his company shipped in the last quarter were BB10 devices. For comparison, Samsung shipped an estimated 70.7m …

Event guide online now - 500 will attend July 10th in Brighton - Don't forget to book your space

Tool will allow iOS and Android app development for free-to-play MMO

Richard Keith, the publisher of Edge, PC Gamer and Xbox 360: The Official Magazine, is leaving Future. It comes ahead of what will be a ‘review of the publishing structure’ at Future’s games division. The news follows a drop in revenue for Future as revealed in its last financial statement. …

There is 'clear and evident market failure' in production of culturally British games