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A significant number of Rockstar employees who worked on Red Dead Redemption have been made redundant. Despite the hugely successful game only launching two months ago, Rockstar San Diego’s team has been cut down in order to focus on developing DLC content for the open world Western, according to Kotaku. …

As the boss of a huge publishing empire, Bobby Kotick simply doesn’t have the time to play games – that’s according to an official statement made by Activision in light of the quite savage attack made against CEO Bobby Kotick by cult games developer Tim Schafer yesterday. Tim Schafer’s comment …

In a busy hall at the Hilton Metropole in Brighton last night, the fifth annual Develop Industry Excellence Awards recognised a huge cross-section of talent from all over the European development sector. Among the award-winning studios and companies present, Unity Technologies took two trophies. The first was for Technical Innovation …

All the Develop Awards stories in one place

Epic Games nudges ahead of competition to win Best Engine the second year running

Jagex founders recognised for outstanding contribution

Group honored for reviving the grass-roots approach to game development

Heavy Rain creator takes home a pair of prizes

Joe Danger creators first team ever to receive prestigious Micro Studio accolade

Batman: Arkham Asylum studio receive dual recognition at Develop Industry Excellence awards in Brighton