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Develop 2010: 'As soon as we have the money' promises development veteran

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Rockstar cuts down San Diego team for DLC development despite Redemptionâ??s success

Develop 2010: Industry veteran warns of publisher instability, confirms four new projects

There’s no word yet on exactly what will be discussed there, but Apple has called a surprise press conference for tomorrow night at 18:00 BST – and with only one thing on the agenda at camp Apple right now, the speculation about what could be on the cards is reaching …

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is now scheduled for release on Wii early next year – so says the game’s producer. Nintendo previously dated the title with a loose window of 2011 during its official revealing at E3 last month. The basis we have now is very, very solid,” …

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 …

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