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PopCap Dublin has been closed by parent company EA. The news comes after management admitted last month that 50 jobs had been lost from PopCap’s Seattle office and an unspecified number shaved from its Irish operations. The company then went on to say that it had entered into an exploratory …

Fallout: New Vegas studio breaks away from in-house Onyx engine to open up Linux support for Kickstarter project

A brawl involving upwards of 2,000 workers has forced a unit at infamous Chinese manufacturing plant Foxconn to temporarily close. Police were called in during the early hours of Monday morning to deal with the escalating situation The New York Times reports. Several people were hospitalised and a number arrested. …

As we enter the final week of our Jobs In Games special, in association with OPM, we find out more about the leading recruitment agencies. OPM owner Kim Parker Adcock and PR and marketing manager Nathan Adcock tell us how the jobs market has changed over the past few years …

The idea that Nintendo has blocked the release of Bayonetta 2 on rival platforms is inaccurate. Indeed, it transpires that without the partnership of Nintendo, Platinum Games would not have been able to greenlight the project at all. "WouldBayonetta 2not exist without Nintendo? The answer is yes," Platinum’s executive director …

But developer currently unsure how to successfully monetise game, says lead designer

The early indications are very positive for Wii U. Retailer GameStop is one of five – the others being Best Buy, Toys R Us, Sears and Walmart – to have already sold out of their launch allocation of the Deluxe Wii U bundle. And the number of retailers offering stock …

Nearly one million users flock to community voting service

FIFA 13 is missing from the Indian Origin store, as are other upcoming EA games such as Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Dead Space 3 and SimCity. This leaves Indian users with no option but to buy physical copies of these games. FIFA 13 retails for Rs 1,499 on PC. Prices …

At last, we have a No.1 selling in decent numbers. 2K Games’ Borderlands 2 has debuted at No.1 in this week’s listings thanks to the biggest unit sales launch of 2012 to date, bettering previous sales winner Mass Effect 3. Its predecessor Borderlands, which launched in late 2009, made it …