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Epic Games has bought the remaining stake in Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment developer People Can Fly. Epic already owned a majority stake in the Polish developer, and with this move, the studio is now wholly owned by Gears of War and Unreal creator Epic. The acquisition has had …

Former Irrational art director to work on The Last of Us

Funcom acknowledges poor performance, blames review aggregate site

Wildly popular indie game reaches another milestone in just three months

Entertainment retailer HMV is to allow customers to order items online for pickup in their local store. It’s a model already successfully utilised by other UK retailers such as Argos, PC World and Tesco. Amongst other pledges in its recent financial report, HMV directors said they were committed to developing …

GAME OF THE DAY: There are few core game genres that have successfully excelled on iOS. Cave shooters are certainly one of them. For those who are yet to experience ‘the Cave way’, it goes something like this: You fly a 2D ship horizontally or vertically along a level while …

Develop asks the famously tall industry luminary - crowned Development Legend in July - what it takes to become one of the best

The things that get said in this office could land people in a lot of hot water. That’s why we don’t say them to other journalists. And that, it appears, is the key mistake made by the Gearbox developer who chose to tell Eurogamer that the in-office name for an …

The sale of digital product could account for the majority of EA’s revenue within 24 to 26 months. That’s according to EA COO Peter Moore, who told Reuters that: "There will come a point, whether it is two or three years from now, when we say ‘We are doing more …

Fourth pan-European developer event begins ahead of Gamescom 2012