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Travis Steiner jumps ship for unspecified startup after big game release

New outlook for the Force Unleashed company after internal tech work

The biggest night in the UK video games industry calendar took place earlier this month, and you can now relive some of the best bits of the MCV Industry Excellence Awards 2011 in the video at the bottom of this story. Over 600 guests jammed into The Brewery, Chiswell Street …

Portal 2 developer Valve has reportedly suggested that the game would be the developer’s last single-player game. The news comes by way of Valve behind-the-scenes chronicler Geoff Keighley who last week published an Apple iPad application called "The final hours of Portal 2". In the application Keighley said "Portal 2 …

European operational duties handed over

The majority shareholders of social games giant Bigpoint have sold a large portion of their stock in a deal valued at $350 million. The transaction is complex and not all information has been disclosed. In June 2008, General Electric, NBC Universal and private equity firm GMT Communications acquired a 70 …

It was EA that dominated the charts this month with some 12 games in the Top 50. Crysis 2 in third place was the publisher’s biggest seller, but sneaking under the radar to make the Top Five was Fight Night Champion, the game was the second biggest seller on PS3 last …

John Schappert, the COO of publisher EA, has in a shock move resigned from the publisher, news agency Reuters is reporting. In an even more astonishing move, he has done so to join rising casual games force Zynga, it is claimed. It’s not yet known what role he will take …

Games released during network outage 'will still be promoted when back online'

It was EA that dominated the charts this month with some 12 games in the Top 50. Crysis 2 in third place was the publisher’s biggest seller, but sneaking under the radar to make the Top Five was Fight Night Champion, the game was the second biggest seller on PS3 last …