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The man who founded Second Life back in 1999 will retire from his short-lived role as interim CEO, despite the search for a permanent replacement not having concluded. Philip Rosedale said in a statement the firm was ready to start the search for a new CEO”. He confirmed he would …

Platform holders’ desire to gain complete control of the software retail chain will mean that the next generation of home consoles will not include any capacity for digital media, developer Blitz Games Studios has stated. Let’s be honest, a lot of us have got smart phones,” CEO Philip Oliver told …

Publisher THQ has announced a brand new Kinect IP – Fantastic Pets, which is being develop by Blitz Games. It’s the first augmented reality game scheduled for release on the device and will see players interacting with digital animals on-screen in much the same way as is seen in Sony’s …

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Develop demystifies Foundation 9, the industryâ??s "secret weapon"

Apple has announced that its App Store has now passed the seven billion downloads milestone, up from 6.5 billion at the start of September. That means the store is currently doing 10 million downloads every day – more than Android Market, BlackBerry App World and Android Market combined. (There’s some …

Social add-on for apps may have survived Appleâ??s Game Center push

Peter Molyneux is a surprisingly critical man. Fable II is a great game, it has sold over 3.5 million units at retail and has a Metacritic score of 89. But during an interview with MCV, Molyneux highlights elements of it as ‘crap’, ‘gimmicky,’ and ‘a terrible crime’. And he invites …

Microsoft development legend yearns to make a 5m+ seller and join the â??triple-A' elite

One of the founders of reviews aggregation site Metacritic has told MCV that he wants games reviews to progress to the stage where they can themselves be considered as pieces of art. I can only hope that with the decline in the number and influence of traditional media outlets there …