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Ed Vaizey to offer update as conference ends month-long festival

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey will reiterate Government support for the games industry later this week. In front of a full house at BAFTA’s Princess Anne Theatre, Vaizey will use the London Games Conference to discuss the crucial areas of future revenue and skills creation. He will also formally close this …

At first glance Kudo Tsunoda looks like an aloof gaming rockstar. The hair. Those sunglasses. Expensive casual dress that belies his senior role at Microsoft. A career softography littered with hits like Fight Night and Gears of War. He’s even graced the cover of Wired. Yet appearances can be deceiving. …

The man behind Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect has shrugged off the less then enthusiastic response that the motion camera has received from some elements of the internet games community. Well, people on the internet are generally negative anyway so I try not to get too bent out of shape about …

Music game developer Harmonix wants to take a larger slice of the European market after selling 16.1m units of Rock Band worldwide. The MTV-owned studio says there will be a heavier proportion of UK and European artists in Rock Band 3’s track list than previous instalments. The music title, which …

Animation specialist reveals new Kinect middleware; studios already on board

Controllerless game development neednâ??t be a sweat, and NaturalMotionâ??s new tech can help

The RTS specialist on its move to embrace publishing

Microsoft is in talks with several European independent studios to bring the Project Gotham Racing series back to the Xbox 360, sister site Develop can reveal. A trusted source told Develop that Microsoft remains undecided on which studio to hand the project to. Turn-10 has for a number of months …

Harmonix has laid out the long-term plan for its Kinect launch title Dance Central, with pre-production already underway on a sequel. CEO Alex Rigopulos told MCV: I think that Dance Central has an opportunity to spark a phenomenon, much like the original Guitar Hero did. "I sure as hell hope …