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Former GameStop vice president of corporate communications Chris Olivera has pleaded guilty to fraud for the theft of nearly $2m from the Texas-based company. As part of his job as the public face of the games retailer, Olivera oversaw the handling of invoices from vendors. Court documentsprovided by Eric Nicholson …

Ragnar Tørnquist's new studio will crowdfund next game in the Longest Journey series

Executive admits taking $2 million through fake invoices

Percentage of female computer science students double that of women in the game industry

On day one of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, we caught up with Glen Schofield, vice president of Sledgehammer Games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3), who spoke to us about the state of the gaming industry, the free-to-play revenue model, mobile gaming, and more. MCV: What made you move …

Industry legend Trip Hawkins delivered a keynote speech on day 1 of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, and he had some interesting predictions for where the games industry is headed next. We live in an era of convenience,” said Hawkins, stating further that just like it has happened with music, …

The three-day Build Your Own Game game development sprint, which was organised by Indie Game Dev India in association with the NASSCOM Gaming Forum, came to a conclusion on day one of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference today. The finalists assembled at the conference venue, where the game prototype of …

Glen Schofield is a man with 22 years of experience in the gaming industry. He’s currently the VP of Sledghammer Games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) and he delivered a keynote speech at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. The one motto he lives by is Quality is King” and …

It was a busy first day at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, and proceedings began with NASSCOM Gaming Forum chair Rajesh Rao announcing that for the first time, the conference had crossed the 1,000 attendees mark. While one of the most anticipated sessions of the day – the Global Indie …

At the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, Mumbai-based Yellow Monkey Studios took centre stage to dissect their successful iOS and Android title Huebrix. Studio founder Shailesh Prabhu started the session by talking about how they gathered funds for this project after winning the best original game idea award at hoPlay ‘11 …