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Blitz Games Studios is to wind down and close its 1UP initiative, which helped small studios develop, distribute, and promote their games. What’s changed is that the market seems to have shifted quite a lot in the way games are sold,” 1UP producer Neil Holmes told Develop, where you can …

Both GAME and HMV were amongst the dozens of retailers attacked as part of the widespread rioting that hit parts of North London this weekend. On Saturday night there was major disruption in Tottenham, with violence spreading as far as Wood Green. As part of that attack the GAME outlet …

Highly experienced artist joins Minecraft outfit

'Important time to keep attention focused on improving skills across the games industry'

July edition includes interviews with Notch, Ian Livingstone and BlitzTech

Shifting business models to blame

With the release schedule utterly stagnant ahead of its reignition at the end of the month, there was little around to challenge 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness which still sits pretty at the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. That’s an amazing eight consecutive weeks …

Ex-Microsoft man to help broker studio deals

An unnamed man in Johannesburg, South Africa, has become the first to be raided in relation to crimes of console copyright circumvention. GamePolitics reports that the individual was arrested on charges of jailbreaking PS3 consoles. The South African Police Service’s Commercial Crime Unit acted following complaints received from the South …

The PS3 version of the PlayStation Store is to receive a promotional summer offer that’s very much in the vein of Microsoft’s established and successful Summer of Arcade promotion. Called PlayStation Network Play, it kicks off on August 24th with the release of classic 2D shooter Street Fighter III: Third …