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ELSPA’s director general Michael Rawlinson has been promoted to vice chairman of the Alliance Against IP Theft. The Alliance is a UK-based coalition of 20 associations and enforcement organisations that work to protect the industry’s IP rights. Rawlinson has been working with the organisation as treasurer for two years. With …

Publisher Square Enix has announced that it has brought forward the release date of Xbox 360, PS3 and PC action title Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days in both Europe and North America. The game will now hit UK and European retail on August 20th and will arrive in the …

Develop 2010: Fishlabs CEO predicts big things for the mobile games industry

Casual games cover about a third of the Xbox Live Arcade catalogue, yet their total sales make up just a fraction of the digital market. That was according to data revealed today at the fifth annual Develop Conference, where a developer of the PSN title Joe Danger bared all on …

Develop 2010: Publishers declined to own one of the most popular games of all time

City Interactive will up shipments of its FPS, Sniper Ghost Warrior, after it broke into the Top Ten last week. The stealth FPS is City’s first major Xbox 360 and PC release, and hit shelves last Friday. It reached fifth place in the Xbox 360 games chart and tenth place …

It’s a problem that has caused the DS market to collapse” and seen software sales drop by 50 per cent in Europe over recent months, but one publisher reckons Nintendo will finally thwart the pirates with its upcoming 3DS handheld. What excites me even more than 3DS games is that …

UPDATE: An official spokesperson from the US GameStop office has contacted MCV with the following statement: These comments from an unnamed and unknown person claiming to be a GameStop employee are inaccurate. Pre-owned is the cornerstone of our business and, as you say, a key driving force for us. Both …

Develop 2010: Simon Oliver on the developer/publisher relationship

Develop 2010: ...and they are great for experimental business structures, claims Gobion Rowlands