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

Group strikes key partnership with Joyent

He’s best known for co-founding Xbox and leading the big money $375m buyout of UK studio Rare. But now Ed Fries is looking at how digital distribution is upending the industry – and says retailers need to take note. Talking to MCV as he joined online art content firm Mixamo, …

Mastertronic claims Sniper: Ghost Warrior proves smaller publishers don’t need a massive marketing budget to make their game a success. The City Interactive FPS has sold over 60,000 units since July, and is still present in the Top Five of the Xbox 360 chart – no small feat for a …

Yet another PC mag has closed at Future this week. The media firm told MCV it will be closing PC Answers – just as the final edition of PC Zone hits newsagents as well. PC Answers’ final issue will go on sale next month, allowing Future to focus on other titles. …

New data shows digital sales 3m units ahead throughout the first half of 2010

Industry luminary Keiji Inafune in new attack on Japan

The Daily Mail has published an article claiming professional gangs of traders are buying up vast quantaties of the UK’s iPhone 4 stock and shipping it abroad. The tabloid claims this is "depriving ordinary customers of getting their hands on them." Apparently, these hoards of ‘runners’ are paid around 70 …

Acclaimed platformer Limbo is the best-selling Xbox Live game of the summer, Microsoft has revealed. The downloadable Xbox 360 exclusive was released as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion in July which also featured Square Enix’s Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light. Our number one Summer of Arcade …

Are you on the lookout for a man that says what he thinks and doesn’t mind risking upsetting people? Well here he is – Bobby Kotick is at it again. This time the outspoken business leader and Activision publishing CEO has stated that he’d like to start charging gamers to …