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Along with a welcome change of climate, this week has also bought with it yet another new name at the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 – Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII. The game becomes the eighth title to hold the stop spot in the ten …

Looks like the men who once ran Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward aren’t going to let publishers boss them around any more. Vince Zampella and Jason West, who were fired by Activision at the start of the month over allegations of ‘insubordination’, have signed up Hollywood agency CAA to …

Creative Artists Agency now representing fired Call of Duty creators Vince Zampella and Jason West

Famed Maxis founder and The Sims creator brings conference to a climax with closing keynote

Industry-led game design course offers students a 6-month Maya trial

'One day turn-around' tool for making PSN comics, strategy guides, eMagazines and more detailed in San Francisco

Rally driving game DiRT 3 has been announced by Codemasters and likely hit UK stores in 2011. In an interview with Edge, Codemasters VP Gavin Cheshire said: It’s all about letting the teams just innovate. There’s some great stuff coming from Birmingham that’s going into DiRT 3, and obviously you’ve …

Members of the 2K Games forum are up in arms this afternoon following accusations that recently released DLC for popular FPS BioShock 2 is in fact already sitting on the game disc. The claims come after users spotted that the total size of the download for the PC version is …

GDC videos show off new Havok abilities

It almost seems like lightning has struck twice for Future. The firm has spent the last few weeks telling publishers that its impressive new First Play on-console PS3 show is one of its best launches ever. Now the swoop for the full licence to its distinguished (polite word for ‘old’, …