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Cloud-gaming service OnLive may be on a mission to eliminate the console, but that isn’t stopping it launching hardware: a universal joypad controller. Costing 39.99 and going on sale soon, the joypad is designed for PC, connected TV and tablet users of OnLive and works with most games in the …

Streaming games firm OnLive has promoted one of its key staff to run its new UK office. Bruce Grove, previously the company’s senior director of engineering, has become UK general manager. He has more than ten years of engineering management for enterprise systems, software, gaming hardware and even jet engines …

Two months left to guarantee your early bird tickets

Publisher Kalypso Media has signed the rights to publish Telltale’s downloadable Jurassic Park game in boxed form early next year. Jurassic Park: The Game will arrive in retailers in the UK, Europe, Australia, South Africa and Asia in Q1 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC. There is currently no word …

Activision will be publishing the video game companion to Sony Pictures’ The Amazing Spider-Man. The title will launch alongside its big screen namesake in 2012. The movie is a reboot of the popular superhero series and is due to hit cinemas over the summer. Activision’s The Amazing Spider-Man is being …

Four unsigned projects take the industry spotlight

Sports Interactive creating new jobs from the extra money

Devs to get 70-80 per cent royalty on apps

Amazon-like recommendation engine 'gives all devs a fair chance'; Royalty rate at 15-25%

Blitz believes the digital games space still needs an indie homeland, but can all roads lead to IndieCity?