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UK-based studio hires art director and senior programmer

The Premier League big guns may have had a torrid time at the weekend with both Arsenal and Chelsea dropping vital points, but Sega’s own Premier League title has hit the spot – Football Manager 2011 is the new UK No.1. It’s Sega’s second No.1 of the year after Aliens …

Entrant numbers for the Independent Games Festival continue to climb

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Entertainment retailer HMV is supporting the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops with a special launch event in London tonight. HMV’s Oxford Street store is offering a free strategy guide to the first 200 customers in the queue who go on to purchase the game. The first 500 through …

The arrival of Kinect could provide a significant boost to the installed user base of Xbox 360 this quarter, according to predictions from M2 Research’s senior analyst Billy Pidgeon. I think Microsoft will sell as many Kinect as can be produced and shipped this holiday season,” Pidgeon told Industry Gamers. …

A trip to the Canada's metropolitan development hub

Star Trek Online could become the next MMO to become a free-to-play title. Developer Cryptic recently announced plans to make its current subscription-based MMO Champions Online a free-to-play title. If that proves a good move, then its Star Trek title could follow suit. I’m sure people are wondering whether we’ll …

Lessons learned from the world of the film set

With just hours to go until Call of Duty: Black Ops is unleashed upon the world to potentially record-breaking sales, most of the major players in the UK entertainment retail sector have come clean with the deals that they hope will win them a big share of the game’s week …