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Australiaâ??s biggest independent developer will not close offices, says boss

Capcom has announced that Dead Rising: Case Zero has broken the record on Xbox Live for week one unit sales. The digital-only prologue to the upcoming Dead Rising 2 has seen more downloads since it launched last week than any other title posted on Microsoft’s online games service. Yesterday, Capcom …

Flash developers edge ever closer to iOS freedom, and the city likes it

Apple has extended an olive branch to its army of app developers by relaxing restrictions on how games are made. The mobile devices giant says it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” – on the proviso that the resulting apps do not download …

More than one million users are playing EA’s Need For Speed World. The online-only racer went live in late July and attracted racing fans with a new MMO-style take on the Need For Speed series. EA is celebrating the game’s accomplishment by opening its content to all players. As of …

The mobile devices giant will â??relax all restrictionsâ?? on dev tools to make game Apps

â??Sense of panicâ?? from publishers trying to buy into a sector of ever-limiting space to grow, says experienced dev

The flood of FIFA games released this year means FIFA 11 could attract the largest audience in the series’ history. In addition to strong sales of FIFA 10, the brand has benefited from the release of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, Facebook game FIFA Superstars and the PC-only FIFA Online. …

Announcement expected next week as sale is finalised; impact on jobs remains unclear

Forget Call of Duty or FIFA – Halo: Reach could be this year’s biggest video game. And to help it along its way, Microsoft is putting more of its marketing spend behind Reach than it did for 2007’s Halo 3. A huge mainstream marketing campaign will see the title promoted …