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Develop tunes in to an engine designed for spatialised audio creation

Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick has had his compensation increased eight fold to $64.9m last year, according to Bloomberg. The man in charge of the publisher received a new employment agreement in March 2012, which awarded the CEO stock in the value of $55.9m over his five-year contract. Kotick won’t …

Dan Gardner talks us through what his audio production outfit can do for your project

Nintendo’s US online store is selling refurbished handheld consoles. DS and 3DS units with ‘minor blemishes’ are available to buy directly from the firm at a slightly reduced price. It’s similar to Apple’s refurbished store, which sells Macs, iPads, iPhones – often ex-models – at more affordable prices. And like …

Dead Island: Riptide defied the critics by becoming the UK’s best selling video game this week. Despite some dodgy reviews, the game was comfortably the best seller, although it only managed half the sales of the original. The first game was a big hit for publisher Deep Silver following what …

Bobby Kotick now the second-highest paid CEO in the US

CCP partners with Dark Horse Comics and filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur

First person space combat being brought to life with Unity and Oculus Rift

Dead Island Riptide has taken the top spot in Steam’s top sellers list for the week ending on April 27th. Deep Silver’s just released expand-alone beats out BioShock Infinite and Age of Empires II HD (last week’s winner). Monaco led a pack of indies in the fourth spot, with Klei’s …

Former Ubisoft Singapore design director Jamie Stowe has joined 22 Cans. The Assassin’s Creed III level design director will assume the role of technical designer at Peter Molyneux’s indie studio – specifically focusing on the Kickstarter-funded project, Godus. "Jamie joins 22cans at a very exciting time and takes the role …