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European games publisher Tradewest has established a new affiliate company, Tradewest Digital. The new firm will focus on developing, publishing and distribution downloadable games for consoles, PC, mobiles and browsers. Tradewest Digital’s first title will be released just before Christmas. No details are available yet, but the company will be …

Consumer festival GameCity 5 drew 20,000 more attendees than last year’s event. The event in Nottingham – which ran from Wednesday, October 27th to Saturday, October 30th in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University – saw 45,000 people attend, up from last year’s 25,000. Consumers had the chance to play the …

Studio with branding expertise explains why interactive ideas grow on consumers

Future Publishing has posted a slight increase in profit for the year ending September 30th 2010. The period saw profits of 8.3m, up from the 7.6m in the same period a year before. Revenue fell one per cent to 151.5m. Net debt was reduced by nearly 50 per cent to …

Is the leading industry association wasting its time chasing tax breaks? We ask CEO Richard Wilson

Those suspected to have stolen The Witcher 2 may be fined more than legit costs

New social game from Stewart Butterfield due for release in spring 2011

A study by US analyst Cowen & Company has said that fear of buying a scratched disk, missing out on the in-game manual or simply the urge to own new goods is the key motivation behind those who dislike buying pre-owned games. In total 54 per cent of those who …

PlayStation move stock is likely to be hard to come by until 2011, platform holder Sony has warned. SCEA’s senior VP or marketing Peter Dille told VentureBeat that Sony misjudged the demand for the stand-alone Move controllers” and that stores are running low across Europe, America and Japan. That bodes …

Ubisoft reveals license deal with 3ds Max, Motion Builder and Human IK