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There’s no hiding from the fact that 2011 has been a year to forget for retailers. The bleak news on the High Street kicked off with troubles at HMV. The situation was made worse by over-zealous press predicting the imminent demise of the entertainment retailer – which issued three profit …

$20,000 Flash dev contest launched to encourage Flash development with popular engine

Zipline Games' Mike Arcuri looks at the current state of HTML5, and the alternatives

MCV catches up with Games Media Legend and IGN’s US head of news and features, Colin Campbell. What did winning the Games Media Legend award at the Games Media Awards mean to you? I live in California. When I got back from London my 7-year-old said, "You went all that …

We don’t really need to say how difficult 2011 has been for UK games retail. Year-to-date, 44,243,352 games have been sold generating 1.14bn in revenue. That’s 12.7 per cent down in units and seven per cent down in value compared to 2010. But for all the bleak figures, there was …

Alex Freed talks to Develop about scripting the much-hyped MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Studio raises more than £110,000 in revenue from all apps in 2011

CryEngine boss Carl Jones says dev pipelines need to be 'super-fast and robust'

Square Enix has announced that the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be getting an exclusive piece of DLC not available on the PS3. It takes the form of a weapon – a bow called Azrael that can be used by FFXII-2 character Serah. It was designed ion …