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Speaking at a lively session at the Game Developers Conference today, Rovio exec Peter Vesterbacka has argued that 59p title Angry Birds is in no way disposable. In February, Nintendo’s US boss Reggie Fils-Aime said one of the biggest risks today in our gaming industry are these inexpensive games that …

The global PC games market has shown growth in through 2010 to reach a record $16.2bn in value, according to PC Gaming Alliance’s third annual Horizons research report. This was a growth of 20 per cent on 2009. None of the geographical market segments tracked showed a decline in 2010 …

The iPhone phenomenon Angry Birds is feasibly close to being downloaded 100 million times, an exec from the game’s creator has said. Speaking earlier today at the Game Developers Conference, Rovio exec Peter Vesterbaka said the Finnish studio was close to that remarkable milestone. People were saying we were crazy …

Develop caught up with Cubic Motion to find out more about how it helped Eidos Montreal's key project

Crunch, DRM and data-mining are all issues that must be explored 'on a moral basis', says game research professor

Roars of applause as Rovio promises to promote a physics engine on all Angry Birds games

Mobile 'at the centre of gravity for entire industry'; Apple hailed as 'the game changer'

Studio opposes description of cheap apps as 'dangerous and disposable'; Insists console Angry Birds will routinely update

Mark Skaggs on 'the matriarch network', building 24/7 businesses and keeping play light

How the FarmVille team stole code, made guesses, sped through development and achieved the impossible