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Rising Star Games will release Deathsmiles across Europe early next year. The Xbox 360 side-scrolling shooter is by Japanese developer Cave, which has a cult following across the world and is highly regarded by its peers. The company rarely releases titles outside of Japan, but the firm’s reputation has risen …

After a solid start 12 months ago, the London Games Conference hits the ground running this year, with a programme featuring speakers drawn from the most exciting and innovative companies in the global games market. The event is charged not with giving an overview of current conditions, but with challenging …

The cost and turbulence caused by the transition to a new generation of hardware is not what the games industry currently needs, according to THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell. Instead, the exec thinks that expanding the current console audience through expansions such as Kinect and Move is very much …

Markus Persson took the industry by storm last month, but who is he, and what is Minecraft?

Developers, tech firms and publishers set to converge on Lyon for business and networking event

Frima Studio to make use of Molehill 3D Flash technology

Yesterday the Prime Minister once again faced the question of why he, and his government, chose to go back on promises made in the run up to the election. Before the election all three parties pledged to introduce a videogames tax relief to compete internationally on a level playing-field,” Luciana …

Markus Persson attempts to cram his explosively creative game in a nutshell

Platform holder Nintendo has revealed that it has suffered a 2.01bn ($25m) loss for the six months ending September 30th 2010. This compares to a 69.5bn profit in the same period a year before. Operating income fell from 104.4bn to 54.23bn while net sales fell significantly from 548.06bn to 363.16bn. …

New App Store sensation Cut The Rope makes 2m downloads in 3 weeks