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Developers to create titles to help promote Lionsgate and BFI movies

Earlier this year, 2K Games announced a 100 special SKU of upcoming role-playing shooter Borderlands 2. Then it sold out. Fans of Gearbox Software’s brutal cartoonish franchise complained. A lot. In fact, earlier this year studio boss Randy Pitchford told us people had been emailing him threats because they couldn’t …

Just when you thought Q1 next year was busy enough, EA has announced yet another promising new title for March 2013. Fuse is a new IP from the developers of Resistance and Ratchet and Clank, Insomniac. It is the studio’s first multi-platform release, with its previous games exclusive to PlayStation …

Super Scratch Programming Adventure uses comics to ready new generation of developers

New Year Develop Quiz announced for January 30th

Metal Gear Solid developer looking to expand its team to work on 3D action game

London Games Festival's October hack event will turn reviewers into the reviewed

Working in QA was a great way to familiarise myself with the inner mechanics of the industry, says Square Enix's Ben Bateman

Ubisoft hopes to add titles from other publishers to its newly-launched UPlay app in future. The service currently only sells digital versions of Ubi’s own PC titles, but could be expanded to rival the likes of EA’s Origin and Steam. We remain open to opportunities,” Ubisoft’s Stephanie Perotti told MCV …

Mobile sensation New Star Soccer 5 has been downloaded more than one million times on iOS. In an interview with our sister publication Develop, the game’s developer Simon Read said the free-to-play version of the hit game had also garnered almost 600,000 in-app purchases. 430,000 users had purchased the career …