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Israel-based studio Playful Shark & Untame Games and Finnish dev Frogmind take awards

Tech outfit looking for interactive projects to be judged on performance and visual quality

South Park: The Stick of Truth will be backed by a ‘irreverent, shocking and disruptive’ marketing push. THQ has promised to reflect South Park’s humour in its activity, which included a show-stealing appearance at the Video Game Awards in the US last week. It would be pretty difficult to market …

Sony’s UK arm bolstered its team with three new hires. Lauren Bradley, former senior product manager for Namco Bandai, takes up the same position at SCE UK after nearly four years at the third party publisher. Sony has also hired Ben Pestell as trade marketing manager. Pestell previously handled trade …

Hundreds of users claim Steam title lacks a number of promoted features

SCEE has confirmed that 30m PS3 consoles have been sold to customers – not shipped – across European and PAL territories. This milestone was hit on Monday December 17th. This is a major milestone for us and clearly shows just how popular the PlayStation brand and products are within Europe …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog takes a look under the bonnet of the input-diverse computer

Capcom has lowered its net income predictions by nearly a third for the year ending March 31st. It had previously forecast 105,000m in net sales, 15,700m in ordinary income and 9,800m in net income. These numbers have been reduced to 93,500m, 10,000m and 9,500m respectively. The publisher admitted that while …

It’s the week before Christmas, the clock is slowly ticking towards your last working day (too slowly, in fact) and you have time to reflect on the past year. Are you where you want to be, or are you stuck in a rut? Are you earning enough? Have you taken …

Dev contest sparks Starcrossed's debut on Microsoft marketplace