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Suspected Jambool buyout may provide the search titan with a new in-app pay system

Dare to be Digital 2010 team Team Tickle talks exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title Sculpty.

Tiga CEO Richard Wilson explores where the association is going

Facebook is racing to find a star games industry exec that will broker deals with publishers and development studios. The social networking giant – which recently clocked over 500 million individual active users – wants to make major deals with external studios and publishers, in a bid to bolster the …

Halo studio to explore a decade of storytelling

Microsoft’s European head of Game Studios Peter Molyneux has urged people not to judge Kinect by its early software and instead wait until developers have had the chance to truly get to grips with the device. We can do core games with it, we can do totally immersive games,” Molyneux …

HMV Group has consolidated the marketing divisions for HMV and Waterstone’s. The two teams have been combined to form the new group marketing department, which will be led by Graham Sim in the newly-created role of group marketing director. This new structure will come into effect on Monday, August 9th …

Social networking empire set to bolster its games business

If pictures obtained by Joystiq are accurate it appears as if Microsoft is to release a second hardware bundle alongside the arrival of Kinect later this year. The site reports that the SKU will include a 250GB variant of the console – complete with high-end glossy finish – as well …

Developer Blizzard has told MCV that the work it has put into refining its online network Battle.net is part of the reason that recent release Starcraft II has proved so resistant to piracy. For World of Warcraft we have been able to work well around the piracy issue and we …