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No doubt fearful of a backlash similar to that suffered by Ubisoft last year, Capcom has announced that it will remove the DRM it had planned for Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. The publisher had previously announced that PC players who were not logged into Games for Windows Live would …

2K Games has announced that first person shooter XCOM will released on March 9th 2012 in Europe and March 6th in the US. And it has also revealed that the game is no longer an Xbox 360 exclusive and will also be hitting PS3. Though the XCOM series has its …

Dark Souls – the spiritual successor to last year’s PS3 exclusive Demon’s Souls – will arrive in Europe on October 8th. The Xbox 360 and PS3 game will also be released in the US three days earlier on October 4th. Gamers are able to pre-order the Dark Souls Limited Edition …

Developer CD Projeckt has confirmed that its successful PC RPG The Witcher 2 is coming to Xbox 360. The confirmation comes from a press conference attended by CVG. The studio warned that the new SKU won’t match the visuals seen in the PC game, but will look "gorgeous" nonetheless. So …

NGP launch title Wipeout 2048 has been detailed for the first time having been leaked online yesterday. The title will be one of "the biggest" games ever in the series and will include ten new tracks and 20 new vehicles, as well as new weapons and game modes. Three control …

Start here to read everything about the best 100 studios in the world today, in association with Metacritic

One of the industry’s most respected studios doesn’t appear in Develop’s definitive list of the best 100 developers in the world – why? The 2011 edition of the Develop 100 – which you can find here – lists studios solely by their total average Metacritic scores in 2010. Under this …

We profile the five best studios in the world today

This week’s MCV – our yearly E3 spectacular – is available to download or read online right now. You can download it to your iPad by clicking here, download it to your desktop here, or you can simply read it online here. What makes this issue special? Well it is …

Who are the best games studios in the world? Who makes the best games? Who deserves the kudos? That last question is one we have tried to answer with every annual version of the Develop 100. Whether based on the now-narrower retail sales data or our confident judgement, the previous …