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PR and marketing firm Reverb Communications has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission over deceptive reviews on Apple’s App Store. The charges relate to reviews posted on the App Store by Reverb staff about their clients’ iPhone games, without disclosing their paid relationship with those publishers. "Reverb and …

EA has announced that author and former SAS veteran Chris Ryan is writing a prequel novel for the publisher’s controversial modern day FPS Medal of Honor. The book will be available for free to all HMV customers that have pre-ordered the game either online or in-store. It is a real …

Trion Worlds, the heavily VC-funded MMO start-up, has spent over $50 million on its first project, the group’s boss has confirmed. That project, entitled Rift: Planes of Telara, has been in development for some four years due to project delays. Trion CEO Lars Buttler told Develop the game’s exorbitant budget …

Alleged insiders admit to complacency, blame money wasting and poor management

Localisation management tool secured for Sonic studio's next project

The Australian arm of Sony Computer Entertainment has won a temporary injunction that has banned the importing or sale of a new PS3 hacking tool until August 31st. The PSJailbreak first emerged earlier this month. It claims to allow PS3 owners to run pirated code directly from an external storage …

CEO Lars Buttler says the price tag is a testament to the studio's ambition

Nintendo has chosen to play new mini-game collection Wii Party with the WiiMote. The platform holder applied the same strategy with launch title Wii Play – and it seemingly paid off, with Wii Play being crowned earlier this year as the best ever selling game in North America. Though some …

One the biggest video games success stories of the year could be getting the Hollywood treatment with none other than A-list actor Brad Pitt in the leading role. Rockstar’s Wild West sequel stormed the global video games charts in May, shooting straight to No.1 in the UK and netting a …

Publisher Namco Bandai has announced that European retail is to receive an exclusive Collector’s Edition of its anticipated action title Enslaved. The SKU will include special packaging, a development-focused artbook and a CD soundtrack written and produced by renowned composer Nitin Sawhney. The game is written by famed writer Alex …