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Speaking at Freeplay 2011, Luke Muscat, lead designer and executive producer at Halfbrick, talked about the lessons learned which led to Fruit Ninja’s creation. The team at Halfbrick looked at Rocket Racing, their previous and unsuccessful title, and other casual games achieving big success. Muscat comments: "Fruit Ninja was a …

Ubisoft studio manager says digital is now the place for start-ups to grow

Ubisoft has revealed that upcoming release Driver: San Francisco will receive a full digital release on the PlayStation Network. Though no firm release date for the PSN version was given, Ubisoft Reflections MD Garth Edmonson told a Gamescom panel last week that it would arrive in a few weeks”, suggesting …

Internet speeds won't meet meet triple-A capacities any time soon, Cerny says

Eurogamer has announced that Bethesda’s much hyped RPG The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo that kicks off on September 22nd. It’s the first chance that the general public will have to get their hands on the game, which will be released in the UK …

The pre-owned games sector is very beneficial to the health of the overall games sector, retailer GameStop has argued. Though they rarely express the opinion publicly, many publisher execs consider pre-owned games as unfairly robbing them of revenue that is instead reserved exclusively for retailers. But GameStop’s executive VP Mike …

'We want to provide many more services to studios,' Yoshida says

Grainger Games is subverting expectations and transforming itself into a serious games brand by hiring retail veterans. MCV speaks to the new-look senior management team to find out what comes next. You have secured some retail veterans from not just Gamestation and HMV, but also Holland & Barrett and Asda. …

UKIE members will get a ten per cent discount on a full price ticket to the London Games Conference. The games trade organisation has signed on as an official partner of the November 10th event which looks at new digital business models for games publishers, retailers and developers. Keynotes at …

Shuhei Yoshida says 'dangerous kinds of interactivity' is just years away