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THQ’s EVP ofkids, family and casual gamesMartin Good has left the publisher along with 30 developers due to weak sales of uDraw. The jobs were cut at THQ’s Play development team in Agoura Hills, California. Last week the publisher revised its Q3 financial estimates after its uDraw accessory performed poorly …

The US games retail market generated $3bn overall in November representing a year-on-year rise of 0.4 per cent. NPD data shows software sales increased 16 per cent from $1.5bn to $1.74bn year-on-year, while sales of games hardware fell nine per cent from $1.08bn to $982.4m. Accessories generated $273.8m from retail …

Business unit leader Martin Good also leaves company to 'pursue new opportunities'

Fierce retail price cutting has put Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V at the top of the UK charts this week. Data from GfK/Chart-Track for the week ending Saturday, September 10th shows that the game on average dropped 13 across the High Street last week. A hugely popular deal at Gamestation saw …

The critically acclaimed developer behind Uncharted is working on a brand new PS3 blockbuster. Naughty Dog revealed Last of Us at the Spike Video Game Awards over the weekend. It is a story-driven, cinematic post- post-apocalyptic survival adventure that stars Joel and his daughter Ellie. No date was given for …

Legendary Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto has assured fans that he will not, as a recent interview implied, be retiring from Nintendo in the near future. The gaming world lit up yesterday when an interview with Wired appeared to quote Miyamoto as saying he was retiring from triple-A games development to …

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 …