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Online games maker Bigpoint has surpassed 300 million registered users. Bigpoint has created online hits, such as Battlestar Galactica Online, Drakensang Online, Farmerama, Pirate Storm and Dark Orbit, amassing communities across the world, connected by its global gaming site Bigpoint.com. In recent years, we’ve seen a rapid increase and unprecedented …

The last NASSCOM Gaming Forum meet-up of 2012 will take place in Bangalore later this month. Scheduled to speak at the meet-up are Dhruva Interactive CEO and NASSCOM Gaming Forum chair Rajesh Rao; Sumit Mehra, executive producer at Zynga; and HashCube co-founder Deepan Chakravarthy. The 3rd Bangalore meet-up is scheduled …

This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it boasts our huge annual retail survey. The survey reveals who the High Street thinks was the best publisher, moment and distributor of 2012, amongst others. It also discusses its hopes for Christmas and what we can expect from 2013. …

Multi-title licensing agreement for revered tabletop franchise

The complete Tomb Raider collection is now available on Steam. Square Enix has just added the original Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider 2, Tomb Raider 3, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider: Chronicles and Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness to Valve’s digital service. Each of these games are available for …

Total War developer Creative Assembly has been handed the Warhammer licence by owner Sega. A new multi-title licensing agreement with IP owner Games Workshop has led to the formation of a new development team within the studio, with the first game scheduled to launch from beyond 2013”. Other video game …

Windows 8 primers to take place in shared office space

Epic's European student development contests enters closing phase with four teams remaining

The once all-powerful Guitar Hero brand was killed in 2011. But a new report claims that development of a new game in the series was well underway by that point. Kotaku reports that that game was set to abandon the various bells and whistles – specifically the drum kit and …

MMO giant holding competition for new and current users