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Zoë Mode creative director and One Life Left host to open game design event

Publisher looking to lower cost US states as part of restructuring, says report

30 jobs created for senior game masters and the like at UK base

Several A-list celebrities will be getting an extra Christmas present this year, courtesy of Nordic Games. The fledgling publisher has teamed up with Premier PR’s celebrity seeding department to continue promoting its popular Wii karaoke title We Sing. Copies have already been sent to Kylie Minogue, Katie Price, Leona Lewis …

Konami has described its upcoming title Silent Hill: Shattered Memories as a landmark entry in the survival horror series. The game is due for release on Wii, PS2 and PSP on February 5th, making it the publisher’s first major release of 2010. Early reviews for Shattered Memories have been very …

2009 is nearly at an end and with it comes the end of the games industry’s most successful ever decade. While each year brings with it a myriad of titles to be won for bragging rights, the Christmas Number One crown remains one of the most coveted. So what better …

Is believable dynamic text-to-speech at runtime a pipe dream, or are we nearer than we think?

UK newspaper The Guardian has today outlined its plans to continue covering games – despite the closure of its weekly Technology supplement.

 Games content at the paper will now move to its daily weekday G2 supplement – from Thursday, January 7th there will be weekly print reviews in G2, as …

In the first of a series of features looking back on the last ten years in the video games industry, Michael French raids the MCV archives to chronicle the arrival of the ‘Noughties’… Head over to the features section for more.

Report says up to 100 staff have gone from casual games developer - including COO Don Ryan