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Freelance music composer Rich Vreeland, responsible for the stellar soundtrack of this year’s Indie success Fez, spoke about the importance of music in games during the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference in Pune. Having worked on Fez most recently, Vreeland frequently referenced the puzzle-platformer in his keynote address. Speaking about the …

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The new 12 GB flash memory model of the super slim PS3 will be available in India as a PlayStation Move bundle at a price of Rs 18,990. The bundle includes the PS3 console, the Move Starter Kit (PlayStation Eye camera, one Move controller) as well as a copy of …

An altered version of Apple’s Samsung lawsuit acknowledgement has been published on the company’s website. On October 18th Apple was ordered by the UK courts to publish an acknowledgement of the court’s ruling that Samsung was not guilty of the patent breaches Apple had accused it of. A statement was …

Ubisoft's UK studio seeks new developers to work on upcoming triple-A titles

The video game industry, especially in India, is largely considered a boys club, which is why at NASSCOM’s Game Developer Conference, there was a panel discussion to specifically talk about women in gaming. The panel consisted of Moumita Paul (Lakshya Digital), Purnima Iyer (Pinaka Interactive), Laxmi Desai-Khanolkar (Apar Games), Arpita …

Patrick Heyer and Sirko Rückmann to work on unannounced multiplayer game

Develop's region spotlight is heading to Scotland. Should it stop on your games company?

Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s official UK launch event will take place at HMV’s Oxford Street store next Monday (November 12th). A 1,000 strong audience is expected, all of whom will receive goody bags. Treyarch developers will be on hand to sign copies of the game and a ‘Zombie …

The firm behind upcoming free game Hawken has scored an extra $18m in VC funding. And it says it can use the money to quickly build an audience of over 10m players. The PC?title from Meteor Entertainment is due for a global roll out on December 12th, and this week …