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Tiny Wings and Contre Jour HD named as year's best games

Just Cause studio now using vendor's project management and defect tracking for Agile and Lean software development

Microsoft has announced a brand new Kinect-only game featuring many of Disney Pixar’s most popular IPs. Formerly known as Rush, the freshly renamed Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure will include appearances from Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, Up! And Ratatouille. Little is known about the game other than it …

Retailers are expecting overall market decline but are still optimistic. 80 per cent of store managers said they were confident about the health of their business in the yearly MCV Retail Survey. We quizzed store managers from High Street chains, supermarkets and indies. Upcoming titles BioShock Infinite and Mass Effect …

What was the biggest event of 2011? What is games retail hoping forin 2012? MCV speaks to retailers nationwide in its annual retail survey… Over 6.5 million day one sales, $775m in revenue generated within its first five days on sale and a whopping 75 copies sold per second. It’s …

One developer has labelled the new Xbox 360 ‘Metro’ dashboard an advertiser’s dream” and criticised it for effectively hiding away a user’s game content. "For me the truly disheartening news is that the ‘games’ tab on our game console is now several pages away from the start," Mommy’s Best Games …

Apps for the Xbox 360 and future consoles will require Kinect support, according to reports. Microsoft has allegedly toldKotakuthat any developers looking to upload content must ensure users can navigate them via voice or gestures through the Kinect sensor. Microsoft is also said to be providing devs making apps with …

Developers share their concern as software update throws all XBLIG games into single list

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Fishlabs beats five other nominees to prize at German Developer Awards 2011