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Kwalee CEO and Codemasters co-founder David Darling discusses the digital revolution, the rise of free-to-play and the fall of games consoles

DLC for both Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops is available at half of its normal cost for the next week. The deal kicked off in the US yesterday (July 3rd) and has begun in Europe and the UK today. Furthermore, a portion of the profits from …

Laurie Krohn, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, outlines pressures on the boxed games industry and looks at what the future might hold.. It’s fair to say that things are pretty tough in the world of boxed games – the value of the market has declined by 12.1 per cent …

Trolling is wrong and trolls themselves are horrific beings. But is there a genuine business consequence to this most despicable of pastimes? Yes, according to Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. Speaking to investors, the exec claimed: There have recently been negative campaigns on the internet in which false opinions are deliberately …

EA's Canadian superstudio topped our developer ranking - we examine why

Over 500 attendees expected at prestigious ceremony celebrating the industry's finest

Information about the cancelled Battlefront III isn’t exactly hard to come by, but a new video shows more detail than ever before about the lost title. The multiplayer shooter was in the works at UK studio Free Radical before its closure and subsequent purchase at the hands of Crytek in …

4.30pm today: Miles Jacobson, Andrew Smith and Will Luton look forward to the Develop in Brighton Conference

Take part today to represent the games sector in the creative media survey

Creative Skillset chief exec Dinah Caine calls on developers to take part in industry survey