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Jordan Thomas moves into indie development and game consulting

The head of Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft is the latest games exec to call for publishers and digital retailers to release their sales data. CEO Yves Guillemot claims that greater transparency from the downloads market will benefit the overall games industry, which retail stats show to be in decline. "It …

Peter Driessen, co-founder of Spil Games, believes that advertisers hold the key to the global acceptance of HTML5 as they look to capitalise on the explosion in mobile gaming. Over the past few months, we have seen the conversation regarding HTML5 for game development evolve. While the format debate is …

Deep Silver has confirmed a release date and two collector’s editions of Killer Is Dead, the new title by Suda 51. The highly-stylised action game will arrive on Xbox 360 and PS3 on August 30th. It sees players brutally taking down various outlandish criminals and is reminiscent of Suda’s previous …

Soomla CEO Yaniv Nizan examines how to balance your in-game economy

Next year’s FIFA World Cup tie-in could be a full game, after EA admitted that its Euro 2012 download didn’t meet expectations. The publisher decided against building a boxed game for last year’s European Championships, and released a downloadable add-on for FIFA 12 instead. But the firm told MCV the …

Talent manager Emma McGonigle tells us more about the tool and game maker

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag won’t just be one of the year’s biggest games, but will also be a best-selling book, says Ubisoft. The firm is readying a tie-in novel to its pirate-themed video game. The Assassin’s Creed books have proven to be a big success, with 1.8m novels sold …

Another Indian studio has found itself in the midst of cloning accusations, only this time, it’s Delhi-based SuperSike Games’ Yet Another Bird Game that appears to have been cloned. Vinyl Games Studio’s upcoming title Circuit Panic bears a striking resemblance to Yet Another Bird Game, featuring an identical core design …

EA vice president Andrew Wilson wants to make it clear to gamers that the company’s digital distribution service Origin is for them, not EA. Speaking to Games Industry, Wilson spoke on the growing pains the service has gone through. "Over the years … there’ve been some permutations of that vision …