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Publisher EA has reported an annual loss for its last financial year of $276m – that’s a 59 per cent improvement on the $677m lost in the year before. Revenue reached $3.59bn, which is slightly down on last year’s $3.65bn. However, Q4 was strong with revenues up over 400 per …

Game Investor Consulting's Nick Gibson asks if industry analysis can ever provide useful results

London studio Curve talks self-publishing and the indie question

Creators of the MMO Illyriad discuss the pleasures and pains of external collaboration

Intruder planted a file on hacked server with the words 'we are legion'

Digital games retailer Direct2Drive has announced the launch of a German version of its popular portal. Found at www.direct2drive.de, the site is currently in beta though already boasts titles from the world’s largest publishers such as EA, Activision and Ubisoft. As a welcome gesture, the site will be offering customers …

UK games trade body UKIE has been confirmed as the sponsor of this year’s Dare to be Digital video games design competition. Run by University of Abertay, Dundee, the competition received some high-profile backing earlier this year when it was endorsed by the Livingstone-Hope skills review. UKIE is delighted to …

Major trade association throws weight behind the popular dev contest

Jobs postings reveal mobile giant may be poised to take advantage of Louisiana state tax incentives

Digital games downloads for mobile games devices now account for around half of all full game downloads. That’s according to a new report entitled Online Gaming 2011 from US stats body NPD. The figure does not include money spent on micro-transactions or game add-ons. Mobile gaming represents one of the …