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David Goldfarb takes up role as game director at newly established Stockholm base

Retailer Amazon has reported that UK consumers are for the first time purchasing more digital books than they are physical copies. Specifically, it currently sells 114 Kindle books for every 100 print books. And it appears that as well as being of benefit to Amazon, the switch to digital has …

The organisers of a gay-focused gaming and geek convention have easily hit their funding target on crowd-sourcing site Kickstarter. The project had sought $25k in funding but at the time of writing stands at $31,301 with 24 days still to go. To date it has attracted 634 backers. Community is …

Birgitta Lundvik to focus on further expansion for middleware firm

UK university developing technology with natural responses to human interaction

The New Xbox. Three tiny words that have been used a million times on the internet over the last two years. But never before by a Microsoft executive. But those were exactly the words used by Microsoft general manager Brian Hall in a Windows 8 focused video interview with The …

Japanese publisher Square Enix believes it is on track to see an increase in both net sales and net income for the current financial year. That’s despite posting an operating loss of 1,163m for the three months ending June 2012, which is down from the 2,178m profit posted in the …

Parody Twitter account @petermolydeux has upped its game. Not content with playing a part in Peter Molyneux’s real-life departure from Lionhead and Microsoft, the prankster has now gone live with a video that reveals the real reason why the legendary UK developer went solo. This is a rough video edit …

Amazon has announced its entry into the game development space. The company revealed its new game development studio Amazon Game Studios earlier today, adding that the team has already launched its first effort—a Facebook game entitled Living Classics. The hidden object game, set in a variety of classic fairytales and …

Hidden in Valve’s Source Filmmaker are files that point to a next generation Source 2 engine, perhaps providing a reasonable explanation for why the company has yet to produce Half-Life 3. Valvetime.net uncovered files that carry several lines of code reference to ‘Source 2′, suggesting the studio is working on …