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Ken Ward joins Moshi Monsters studio; assumes global recruitment role

Android-based platform receives more than 10,000 backers

Popular games comic and blog Penny Arcade is offering fans the chance to remove all advertising the site – if they pay $1m. The website’s creators have started a Kickstarter campaign promising that all ads will be removed if it raises enough money – specifically $999,999. If they reach $525,000, …

Develop Conference: 'Advice developers receive from contributors is trustable as they have invested money', says Jason Holtman

Former Codies studio execs Cheshire and Marshall leading new real-time games app firm

Rovio’s mobile phenomenon will swoop into living rooms this Christmas as Angry Birds Trilogy arrives on Xbox 360, PS3 and 3DS. The compilation includes Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and movie tie-in Angry Birds Rio, according to IGN. The trio have a combined sales count in the billions. Angry Birds …

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will launch in late October. Speaking at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, the computing giant announced that the final consumer version of its latest operating system will launch October alongside the first run of its next-generation tablets and phones. Microsoft also announced that users …

Develop Conference: EA's John Riccitiello fears losing his job over falling stock

Germany’s largest games industry network, Gamecity:Hamburg, welcomes its biggest ever gathering at gamescom 2012. Gamecity: Hamburg will bring 11 Hamburg-based companies to its booth at the industry event in Cologne. Exhibitors under the Gamecity umbrella include Atlas Interactive Deutschland, Fishlabs Entertainment, InnoGames, Playa Games, and Taylor Wessing Deutschland. It is …

Microsoft’s new Kinect fitness initiative goes live today in the US. Kinect PlayFit takes the form of a new dashboard for Xbox 360 that keeps track of your efforts in compatible Kinect titles, aggregating all of the information in a single resource. Confirmed currently compatible games include Dance Central 2, …