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Katamari Damacy man moves to Vancouver to work for Tiny Speck

The surprise hit of 2011 has continued to deliver as 505 Games’ popular sports title Zumba Fitness has claimed its fourth No.1 on the trot in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s its seventh No.1 in total since the Wii version was released in Chart-Track’s 13th week …

Farmville group completes fifteenth acquisition in thirteen months

Many thought we’d seen the last of him, but Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has finally found a project to drag him out of the gaming doldrums – indie MMO Glitch. The studio has announced via its blog that Takahashi has joined the studio. In fact, he and his family …

After a decade spent producing one of the most popular console franchises of all time, developer Bungie has at long last finally said goodbye to the Halo universe. In an emotional letter to fans, the studio said that it would be going dark” for a while as its full attentios …

Crytek's Licensing Team technical designer Ade Esan looks at how a real time development engine can improve the quality of a project

BlitzTech studio technical director Richard Hackett talks about making the first augmented reality game for Kinect

Trinigy's general manger Felix Roeken observes the effect on middleware of the rise of indie studios

Microsoft believes a new wave of locally developed Kinect titles will help boost sales of the peripheral in Japan. Earlier this week, the platform holder’s Japanese Xbox 360 general manager Takashi Sensui admitted that the console’s motion-sensing camera did not met expectations at launch in the region, according to Andriasang. …