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iOS game developer Spilt Milk Studios has announced that analyst Nicholas Lovell has joined its board. Spilt Milk’s has to date published two titles – Crunch: the Game and frantic arcade hit Hard Lines, which was co-developed with Nicoll Hunt who has since left the company. Lovell has a wealth …

It’s a sign of the time – distributor Interactive Ideas is withdrawing from retail product distribution. However, rather than focus on the decline in traditional retail sectors the company has instead chose to focus on the growth it sees in enterprise software – that is, software and IT used by …

Dark Souls has made its name on being hard. Like, really hard. And while its success has come on the back of the stiff challenge it offers – and conversely on the achievement felt by those who topple it – the game’s director Hidetaka Miyazakiis considering the introduction of an …

Aardvark Swift's MD Ian Goodall on why the rise of social media will not kill off recruitment agencies

Want to know what’s hot in gaming right now? Surviving, that’s what. Whether you’re talking about existing hit Minecraft, emerging underground mod title DayZ or the upcoming zombie-survive-a-thon The War Z, plonking gamers in the middle of nowhere and telling them to deal with it is very much ‘the thing’. …

Xbox Live has been down most of this morning. And gamers are not at all happy. It doesn’t help, of course, that today’s the day that the second piece of DLC for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, called Hearthfire, is out now. But despite no sign of a reprieve Microsoft tells …

Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride and others lead third-party charge

Gameloft has tied up with DisneyUTV for distribution of its line-up of mobile titles via cell phone operators in India. In addition, DisneyUTV will also make Gameloft titles available through UTV Indiagames’ destination sites. This is one of the most strategic alliances we have made, especially in light of some …

Continuing our Jobs In Games special, in association with OPM, Aardvark Swift’s managing director Ian Goodall explains why the rise of social media will not kill off recruitment agencies. Social Media… Internal Recruiters: Is this the end of the road for Recruitment Agencies? We’re in a recession; companies are under …

AntiSec, one of the many internet hacking communities, has claimed that it has obtained the UDIDs and user details of 12m Apple users. UDID stands for ‘unique device identifier’ and is a 40-character code often used for app tracking and authentication purposes. DailyTech reports that the group obtained an FBI-owned …