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Some 1,700 kids and parents swarmed to London’s Moshi Monsters pop-up shop during its first 24 hours. Mind Candy – the developer behind the hit online virtual pets game – opened the one-off spin-off shop two weeks ago. The firm even had to draft in extra security to cope with …

Konami has put a firm release date on the next piece of long-awaited DLC for football title PES 2011. The patch, which will include all the player changes from the winter transfer window that closed on February 2nd, will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on March 15th. …

Zoe Mode lead designer Fraser Simpson wonders if devs should welcome back lapsed players

InstantAction closure 'premature', says former CEO

A record number of industry professionals attended last week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and it’s fair to imagine the event was covered by more media outlets than ever. Hundreds of developers speaking at the event had their opinions republished across the world, and numerous companies used GDC as …

Develop lists all the key happenings from this year's event

Compounding the widening belief that a new Grand Theft Auto could be announced at some stage this year, a casting call for a mystery new Take-Two project has got tongues wagging. A Kotaku report backs up previous claims that the game will be retuning to Los Angeles by citing a …

Playing video games late at night is one of the main factors of sleeplessness, according to a US study. The National Sleep Foundation found that 95 per cent of people questioned used some type of electronics in the hour before going to bed, while two thirds admitted they don’t get …

Volition has hinted that there will be some fantastic surprises” for fans in Saints Row: The Third. The game is due for release around Christmas” and already looks phenomenal”, according studio boss Eric Barker. He refused to confirm any other details on the game, including whether or not the game …

Online games network Eurogamer has announced that senior staff member Tom Bramwell has been promoted to the position of operations director. Eleven years into his role at the company, Bramwell will now oversee the day-to-day running of Eurogamer.net, on which he remains editor-at-large, as well as industry site GamesIndustry.biz and …