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The London Games Festival saw a whopping 76,000 people attend its various games events. Between September 31st and November 4th, a range of politicians, industry figures, journalists, PRs and consumers took part in 26 events that ranged from expos and exhibitions to lectures, conferences and award ceremonies. The 2010 LGF …

The Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo has been downloaded 2m times in just two weeks, EA confirmed today. Players clocked up more than 54m miles of road racing and over 20m successful police busts from the day the demo arrived on October 26th to November 9th. During the course …

As a follow-up to today’s story that UK games retailers are threatening to drop Steam-integrated video games, we are reprinting industry consultant Nicholas Lovell’s article from May this year. In his piece, originally published on Gamesbrief, Lovell discusses the five reasons why Steam will destroy the PC games industry. In …

Online games developer and publisher K2 has acquired the APB IP from the administrator of collapsed Dundee studio Realtime Worlds, inside sources have told Develop. California based K2 Network, a heavily VC-funded company responsible for the free-to-play service GamersFirst, has reportedly spent in the region of 1.5 million for the …

All Points Bulletin may soon return as free-to-play offering

Warren Spector’s journey from adult game Deus Ex to Disney has been a long but by no means ardous one. Back in 2004, Epic Mickey’s creative director left Ion Storm to form his own development house Junction Point Studios. There, he quickly began work on his next project but soon …

Ten tickets available to developers made redundant

Atari’s online games division outperformed its console operations in the first half of the year, but were unable to prevent overall losses in revenue. For the six months ended September 30th, 2010, the publisher’s online games generated revenues of €12.9 million – a significant increase from the €1.8 million achieved …

UK animation and design studio continues Call of Duty contributions

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