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With Sony and EA recently unveiling bold new moves to counter what publishers see as the threat posed by the pre-owned market, Nintendo has refused to rule out taking similar measures with its own products. Recent and upcoming EA releases Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will use …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick delivered a winning keynote at DICE in Las Vegas that was full of charming anecdotes about his own mistakes, as well as a vision for how large publishing companies can and should work with creative teams and individuals. His speech to a packed house verged …

Managers not welcome at Sony's hit studio

"There is not one person at Naughty Dog whose only job is to mange other people. We have very little hierarchy." At the DICE conference in Las Vegas, Naughty Dog co-lead game designer Richard Lemarchand outlined the company’s "loose" culture and structure, which eschews management hierarchies in favor of communal …

Michael Hegemann and The Haunted Team take top honours

Vicious Cycleâ??s latest platform gets retrofitted

Thirst for AAA projects will not quench, despite rise of small indies

Rising expectations and saturated market favours the big firms, says Assyriaâ??s Adam Green

Are smaller indie studios beginning to direct the videogame business?

The long-awaited arrival of the 60m+ selling action puzzle series Peggle on the European arm Sony’s PlayStation Network is finally upon us, publisher Sony Online Entertainment has announced. The standalone original title costs 6.29 to download off PSN with expansion pack Peggle Nights coming in at 3.19. Both games can …