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When Testology opened the doors of its new compliance facility, it made sure it got things right

More extraordinary claims from the outspoken publishing boss

A new update on the GOG site suggests that the site is indeed closing down after all. It reads: "First of all, we apologize everyone for the whole situation and closing GOG.com. We do understand the timing for taking down the site caused confusion and many users didn’t manage to …

Sony’s PlayStation 3 has now overtaken Wii to become the best selling home console of 2010 in Japan. In total since January Sony’s machine has shifted 1,017,094 units in the territory compared to Wii’s 1,015,513, according to numbers from Media Create reported by VG247. Coupled with the most recent data …

Online portals have and will continue to be hacked, says industry veteran

Keiji Inafune, Capcom’s global head of R&D, has in a new interview made it clear his Japan is finished” statement from Tokyo Game Show 2009 made one year ago was not a misquote. Speaking to the New York Times some twelve months later, Inafune reiterated this belief. I look around …

Host of Dundee digital arts conference presenters revealed

Third publishers who continue to treat Wii with scepticism may be letting opportunities slip them by, THQ CEO Brian Farrell told MCV. Do we see big growth prospects on a platform that’s been out for so long? No. But are there opportunities? Absolutely,” he stated. Some times you have to …

After a tough couple of years THQ appears to be on the road to recovery. How have you managed it?The whole restructuring has been focused on the right titles. I think the entire industry realised that there were too many products. Back in October 2008, we said we were only …

Goldsmiths project to be funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council