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New HMV owner Hilco will cut a further 400 jobs at the entertainment retailer, according to reports. The Times says that Hilco is targeting a net saving of 7.8m from HMV’s payroll. An internal staff memo has suggested that store security guards will be dropped from nearly all stores other …

Canadian developer says success allowed him to consider his next move

Jason Graves tells Develop what it was like to compose Tomb Raider's score

BioShock Infinite remains the boss of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It’s the third successive UK No.1 for the game, although sales declined 44 per cent week-on-week. Square Enix’s Tomb Raider is at No.2 for the fourth week in a row although it suffers a …

THQ's former global recruitment manager now at Call of Duty publisher

Lauren Orrells, Daniel Hitchen and Pawel Margacz join Portsmouth studio

Lobbying deadline for UK and European studios is tomorrow at 5pm GMT

Many UK and American players were left unable to log into Xbox Live over the weekend. "We are still hard at work fixing the issue members are having signing in to Xbox Live,” a statement read. Rest assured we have every available resource working on fixing the problem." It also …

Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling products chart for the week ending on April 13th. Strategy update Age of Empires II HD takes the top spot, beating out a rare tie for the runner-up spot with a heavily discounted Dishonored sharing space with Bioshock Infinite. The Walking Dead rises again …

EA has cut a number of staff at its customer service branch in Galway. Ireland-based trade outlet The Journal reports on the redundancies, adding that they take place just seven months after the firm announced it would create 300 new positions in the country. When asked for a statement, EA …