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Recent FPS release Metro Last Light has smashed the commercial performance of its predecessor Metro 2033. The game has in one week of release already matched what the last game achieved in its first three months and the PC version managed triple the sales that 2033 managed in its first …

Develop discovers how the Call of Duty studio returned from the brink of collapse

Respected Gold sponsors backing prestigious awards ceremony

Pixie Software's Stephen Caruana on working in the new Malta game development scene

A car driven by a suspect being pursued by police has struck and killed Oculus Rift’s co-founder Andrew Scott. The 33 year-old was hit in Santa Ana, California where he had lived for a year. The car, a Dodge Charger, was being driven by 21 year old Victor Sanchez who …

Codemasters racer Grid 2 is this week’s UK no.1. It’s the publisher’s first UK chart topper since F1 2010. The first Grid achieved only second place in its first week, although its sales were 29 per cent stronger than the new sequel. You have to go all the way down …

Country is largest producer of games per capita, claims report

Valve blocked game from Steam to avoid encouraging indies to split royalties

Indie darling Terraria will land on mobile devices in the coming months, following successful runs on PCs and consoles. The mobile development will be handled by Dutch studio Codeglue under publisher 505 Games. Specific platforms were omitted from the original announcement, but a 505 rep confirmed to Polygon that the …

Finally some good news out of Canada, as the region’s Entertainment Software Association has revealed the country’s video game industry added around $2.3bn to the national GDP in 2012. Games Industry reports that ESAC announced the figure during a keynote address at the Ottawa International Game Conference last week – …