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Nintendo’s legend Shigeru Miyamoto has mulled over charging users to play the Wii and DS online. The creator of Mario and Zelda told Edge: We are desperate to realise the core online business structure.” Do we need to demand customers pay monthly fees to enjoy online activities or give an …

Facial animation studio welcomes new vice president of North America sales

Apple has announced that its iPad tablet will go on sale in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on 28th May. As previously announced, pre-orders kick off on Monday (10th May). Apple has also confirmed UK pricing for the device. The Wi-Fi only iPad will …

Jamie Macdonald, formerly BAFTA-winning SCEE WWS VP, has been hired as the new Codemasters senior vice president of production following investment in the studio from Reliance Big Entertainment. The move represents part of what Codemasters are calling the building [of a] strategic focus of a future portfolio” for the firm, …

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The monopoly once enjoyed by the likes of GAME and GameStop in the pre-owned market is under threat like never before, and now one analyst has predicted that Wal-Mart in the US will follow Best Buy UK’s lead in introducing a second hand offer in its stores. We had seen …

TIGA CEO Richard Wilson has told Develop that he believes a Hung Parliament, now confirmed as the result of yesterday’s election, may well work in the favour” of the UK games industry. We’ve come such a long way. All the major parties have stated commitments to tax measures to help …

Launch of new Apple platform coming May 28

The BBC believes it can revolutionise the games market with Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. The third-person action PC title is a downloadable free-to-play episodic adventure. But the broadcaster doesn’t believe that giving the game away for free will hurt the games sector, and instead could bring about change for …

Former SCEE London boss takes production management job at UK publisher/developer