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London institution lauds efforts to bring academia and industry together

Woolworths’ former development boss has told MCV he will open up to 200 Alworths stores throughout the UK – and games will be stocked in all outlets. Andy Latham – MD of the new retail chain – launched the first five Alworths stores last month. He has hired a team …

Itâ??s time that game characters laid off the botox â?? and thereâ??s tools out there to helpâ?¦

During those calm and quiet pockets of time you will hopefully have over the weekend, Develop will be here, updated with a special treat. Today that treat is an interview with none other than the wonderful Paulina Bozek, a project lead for SingStar and now the development director at Atari. …

Atariâ??s brightest star gets the rapid-fire question treatment

Studio shut last month, Develop confirms - but directors return with new outfit

Sony Europe’s intention to further the recognition and muscle of the PlayStation brand throughout 2010 has been bolstered with news that SCEE ahs signed Target Entertainment as a consumer product agent for PlayStation. Included within the deal is the PlayStation brand itself as well as the PS3, PSP, PS2, PSOne …

Activision has called on the games industry to get behind its GAME For Good Modern Warfare 2 charity push. The firm is trying to encourage a million Modern Warfare 2 owners onto Xbox Live this weekend (Saturday December 5th and Sunday December 6th). A huge flux of online players will …

12 months later and the story is a little different. Budgets are tighter, the release schedule is lighter and advertising costs have fallen. 97 million is still a mighty big number, but a 30 per cent year-on-year drop shows what a tough year it has been, and how scrutinised spending …

SCEA has revealed that its PS3-only third person sandbox adventure InFamous has sold 1.2m copies worldwide since its release this summer according to the US PlayStation blog. Whilst selling a million copies is certainly not to be sniffed at, the number is surely below what both Sony and developer Sucker …