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The Ace Combat series will be ‘reborn’ on Xbox 360 and PS3 next year, Namco Bandai has told MCV. Ace Combat Assault Horizon marks the first time the franchise has appeared on PlayStation 3. Developed once again by Project Aces, the team has set about creating a more destructive air …

Honeyslug lead design supremo Nat Marco outlines her studio's top tips for building games character gold

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