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Green Man Gaming has merged with global gaming community Playfire. Playfire was founded in 2007 and has more than 1m gamers on its service. The network lets members track their gaming habits and compare with their friends. The total number of games registered on Playfire is 80.9m, with the Playfire …

Crimson Alliance dev working on updated Halo mapmaker

Mobile and PC title to release on August 22nd

X-Men and Prometheus star Michael Fassbender is to both co-produce and star in the first movie adaptation of Assassin’s Creed. Variety reports that the Hollywood favourite, whose film credits include Shame and Haywire, will work in tandem with Conor McCaughan. The plot of the film is said to revolve around …

nDreams, CCP, Bossa, 4J Studios/Mojang, SCE, Red Lynx and Wargaming.net face off

The Wii U offers developers huge scope for innovation, but not all studios are enthusiastic about the possibilities. Specifically, the man behind Namco Bandai’s Tekken series has spoken of his concerns that the use of two screens might be distracting” for players. "Looking at the small screen and the big …

'He can do all this stuff, he can be that free - you couldn't do that with the corporate PR machine at Microsoft'

Not sure which sessions, panels and workshops to attend? Develop is here to help

The five episodes that comprise the first season of The Walking Dead will be released on disc at retail, developer Telltale has announced. To date the games have been available to download individually for around 4 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Alternatively, the 15.99 season pass grants users all …

Eight-week software creation competition open to aspiring programmers from 18 and under