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The nation's development workforce has halved, new data suggests

The UK games mags have seen falls across the board, according to the latest figures from ABC. The steepest falls were suffered by Official Nintendo and GamesMaster, which saw readership falls of over 6,000 each. But there were dips across the board for all the games press – with the …

I want to start by saying something right from the off – I hate moral campaigners. I hate political correctness, I hate tabloid outrages, I hate the idea of game censorship. I was watching films like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street when I was (don’t hate my …

Atari’s revenues dropped from €92.5m (77.7m) to €41m (34.4m) year-on-year during the nine months ending December 31st. Despite the 55.7 per cent dip in overall revenues, Atari’s online business grew 493.5 per cent during the fiscal period. €18.4m (15.4m) was generated in this area compared to €3.1m (2.6m) the year …

Scottish group Axis Animation behind the highly popular video

Microsoft has teamed-up with Australian pop legend Kylie Minogue on a European marketing push. The firm’s Kinect title – Dance Central – is the headline sponsor of the star’s upcoming Aphrodite: Les Folies European Tour 2011. The partnership will mean the game will be prominent at each of the tour’s …

Calibur11 is promoting its first UK products two months ahead of launch. The new peripherals vendor will enter the market this April with a line of interactive console shells for the Xbox 360. The firm is focusing on its Vault line-up: character-based cases that light up when the console is …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick "seems lost in a time machine perspective of a past business model that will never return". That’s according to IndustryGamers publisher Mark Friedler, who in a scathing editorial says that the publisher’s unwillingness to brach into the casual and social gaming sector is a serious …

Hasbro’s family board game Monopoly can now be played on Facebook online for free. Facebook users can play Monopoly Millionaires in a web browser on PC and invite friends to play together. As usual the aim is to buy hotels across the board and amass the biggest fortune in Monopoly …

Alleged insider describes the post-Halo project as 'WOW in space'