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With much of the world’s games industry gearing up for GDC in San Francisco this week, the number of rumours doing the rounds is rapidly increasing – and there’s plenty being said about Sony’s Motion Controller. Chief amongst the talk, VG247 claims to have word that Sony will tomorrow go …

The first details surrounding Square Enix’s freshly announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light have emerged – and might prove somewhat of a shock to fans of the franchise. It was revealed last week that the game has not only dropped ‘Tomb Raider’ from its title, but will also …

Following a weekend of server trouble that lead to some gamers being unable to play their copies of Assassin’s Creed II or Silent Hunter V thanks to Ubisoft’s new internet-only DRM, the publisher has apologised for the outage – adding that the problems were down to an attack” on its …

Three in one deal combines DevTrack, DevPlan and KnowledgeWise

More than 90m copies of Windows 7 licences have been sold, making it the fastest-selling operating system in history. A post on The Windows Blog broke the news, with a spokesperson saying: We’re humbled and excited that people are responding so positively to Windows 7.” Windows 7 for PC was …

Develop Jury pens love letter for Sir Cliveâ??s pioneering computer

Multiple reports circulating the internet are suggesting that Cing – developer of renowned titles such as Hotel Dusk, Another Code and Little King’s Story – has filed for bankruptcy. The full story is on MCV’s sister site Develop.

Develop panel gets back to BASICs

Not content with storming to the top of the UK Charts and becoming the seventh number one of the year, EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has also become the fastest selling title of the year to date. In doing so it steals that crown from this year’s previous fastest sellers …

Streamlined process as Image Metrics partners with Xsens Technologies