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Two-week brainstorming and prototyping session to be livestreamed, projects selected by fans

Bohemia Interactive employees forced to wait 70 days for verdict due to strike

Nintendo has this afternoon named the new general manager of its UK operation: Simon Kemp. Kemp hails from outside the games industry. He began his career as a graduate trainee atUnilever in 1988 and during his time thereworked across a number of different categories in a variety of commercial roles …

Hotline Miami, QWOP, Unfinished Swan, Bit.Trip developers and others turn to Kickstarter to establish creative centre

In the latest chapter of the on-going Comet administration process, the firm has confirmed that 735 additional employees have been made redundant. Administrator for Comet, Deloitte, broke the news this afternoon, announcing the job losses, which were based in the firm’s head office, central functions and home delivery network. There …

Sony has lifted the lid on a brand new Uncharted game for Vita – Uncharted Fight for Fortune. Rather than trying to replicate the IP’s PS3 experience a la Uncharted: Golden Abyss, this title takes a different approach. It’s an action-adventure turn-based card game featuring the heroes and villains from …

GamesGrabr to launch in Q1 2013 on web and smartphones

PC developer considers his game a 'tribute' to Cavanagh's

The Milestone Interactive Group’s publishing and digital services division today announced its first mobile game – Worbble. Set for release in early December for iOS and Android devices, Worbble is a word-based puzzle game developed by Mile Nine Studios. The game is designed to test the player’s vocabulary and general …

Over one-in-ten stores are now standing empty on UK High Streets, the British Retail Consortium has claimed. The organisation’s latest survey pegs national vacancy rates at 11.3 per cent. That’s up 0.4 per cent month-on-month and is the highest rate since the BRC started compiling the data in July 2011. …