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Publisher Ubisoft has become one of the first prominent publishers to publicly express its excitement for Nintendo’s still mysterious new home console. And while no specifics or tech info was divulged, Eurogamer reports that in a call to investors CEO Yves Guillemot says the HD work done for machine such …

Wide-ranging security measures offer insight into the PSN's delayed return

Facebook hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to try get the press onside regarding Google’s strategy of collecting information from Facebook. The episode began to unfold on Tuesday when USA Today reported on the Burson-Marsteller representatives which had offered to ghost write opinion piece articles criticising Google’s ‘Social Circle’ feature. The …

Reports suggest the developer network has returned in some regions

Reports are merging that the developer’s version of PSN has this morning come back online. Eurogamer reports that the move could point to an imminent return for the main network. "The internal PSN developer network is online again, at least it seems for some, although things are still a bit …

Last week UK retail sold the lowest number of games in almost five years. 573,506 games were sold through UK shops last week, a week-on-week drop of 19 per cent and the lowest sales figure since June 2006. The UK games market value also dropped last week, 22 per cent …

Good news at last – more money was made from games software in April 2011 than the same period last year. According to UKIE/GfK Chart-Track data, retailers made almost 70m from game sales last month, a modest increase of 1.8 per cent compared to April 2010. It’s the first time …

Newell tells Develop heâ??d hire fifty people tomorrow, providing they meet the standard

April has been a very kind month. In the UK we get glorious weather, in the US they get an excellent performance from video games at retail. The latest NPD numbers show that the month was 20 per cent up on the same period in 2010, reaching a total value …

The PC games pioneer bares all on Valve's unique dev culture, and shares his grand plan for the future.