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Xbox Live will be a fully integrated part of the next generation of Microsoft’s smartphone Windows OS, the platform holder has today revealed. The OS’s Xbox Live hub will include both playable XBL titles as well as Achievements and access to a user’s current gamer profile and avatar. However, simultaneous …

* The industry has moved on from a cyclical pattern to a smoother line of growth because of the introduction of a new direct to consumer value chain emerging through online games which devs/publishers can exploit as well. * The next-gen console may be an entirely different format recognising the …

Last year, Microsoft’s game software boss Phil Spencer offered a telling quote about the direction of the games industry to MCV. It wasn’t about motion controllers or new online services – it was about the market forces that are allowing those things to appear: Do we need a new console? …

In the middle of last year, Microsoft’s game software boss Phil Spencer offered a telling quote about the direction of the games industry to MCV. It wasn’t about motion controllers or new online services – it was about the market forces that are allowing those things to appear: Do we …

A new event focussing on the rise in self-publishing and the end of the era of giant publishers” has been announced for the end of the month. Dubbed GamesDev: How To make Money From Self-Publishing, it will take place at 09:30 on February 25th in London. Arriving on the back …

Trio of Skynet execs break off to form AppStar Games Inc

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MTV owner seeks money formally paid in bonuses to Rock Band developer Harmonix

The pressure is mounting on Australian authorities to introduce legislation to legalise the sale of adult-rated video games, with both retailers and consumers throwing their support behind the initiative. We would fully support and instigate any new legislation the government seeks fit to introduce,” a spokesperson for the Aussie branch …

5 studios cut so far: RedOctane, Neversoft, Luxoflux, Radical, Underground