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Good quarter for troubled publisher following massive restructure

Windows GM Brian Hall lets slip that console is coming in wave of new products

US developer assures users it will not close down Cafe World

Independently developed Arma II mod Day Z has passed the one million registered users milestone. It’s a tremendous achievement for creator Dean Hall, whose creation – which is completely free to download – has become one of the hottest properties in gaming since its release in June of this year. …

More than 1,200 years of game time accumulated by users

Dare to be Digital 2012 competitors ClockinRock talk exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title Liminal Magibrawl

Dare to be Digital 2012 competitors Dapper Hat Games talk exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title Mr Montgomeryâ??s Debonair Facial Hair

Consumers’ ability to trade-in games at GameStop contributes $1.8bn to the US games industry every year, the retailer has claimed. Revealing that 70 per cent of all income derived from used games is immediately spent on new titles, GameStop president Paul Raines told Gamasutra that it’s proud of how it …

Attendees who book before the early bird deadline will be entered into prize draw

PEGI age ratings have been law in the UK for a whole week now. But the battle is only just beginning. The successful introduction of a single, legally enforceable age ratings system for video games software is a tremendous victory for a games industry that is still fighting those who …