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Investment to help Mindshapes grow and bring new products to market

Battlefield 3 has become the fastest-selling game in EA’s history after selling 5m units in a matter of days, the publisher has announced. The game went on sale on Friday, October 28th on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It has 2.5m Facebook ‘likes’ and over 200,000 followers on Twitter. Plus, …

'There will be discs for a long time from now, but the world has adopted download'

The boss of developer Playdead has said the boxed games model has always been and still is broken”. Dino Patti, the co-founder of the studio that developed downloadable hit Limbo, told Eurogamer at the GameCity6 festival that he wants format holders to embrace the download space even more”. "The retail …

App developer sees 125 per cent growth in five months

Development kit due for commercial release early next year says Microsoft

The mobile game phenomenon Angry Birds will get its own line of retail stores, developer Rovio has announced. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Beijing, Rovio’s chief marketing officer Peter Vesterbacka said the move was partly to tackle piracy in China. He brought a couple of unofficial Angry Birds …

'Scope and ambition' of game meant 'added pressure'

Sonic Generations has smashed pre-sale records for Sega to become the most pre-ordered game in the franchise’s 20-year history. The platformer – which combines the newer and more retro Sonic the Hedgehog characters – is due out in the UK on November 4th for Xbox 360 and PS3. A 3DS …

Canadian games studio Silicon Knights has laid off three quarters of its staff, according to sources close to the company. The cut brings the amount of employees at the developer from 97 down to 25.Two credible” independent sources that staff had been laid off. Silicon Knights has had massive layoffs. …