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Nintendo of America has revealed that the DSi, its third iteration of its twin-screened handheld hit, sold 1.7m units in its first three months on sale in North America – the best performance from a Nintendo machine in recent times. The original DS sold just under 1.38m in the same …

Skillset Scotland armed with £40k to help drive the nationâ??s game development sector

What can studios do to prevent their games from making their way to the second hand market?

A guide to harnessing tester ambition

Montreal Games Summit to also see Media Moleculeâ??s Paul Holden attend

Frontier founder becomes non-executive director at Phonetic Arts

Second annual game-commissioning event set for September

The Hut has vowed to become Europe’s No.1 online retailer, following a multi-million pound investment and a string of high profile new recruits. The firm plans to extend its white label business globally, with a target of increasing its turnover by 800 per cent from 25 million to 200 million …

GoldenEye designer and Free Radical founder David Doak has returned to games development via a new studio making Facebook games, Develop understands. The new firm has emerged following the late 2008 collapse of TimeSplitters dev Free Radical. Develop understands that two of the four original founders of Free Radical, David …

John Carmack, technical director at id Software, has predicted that Sony will be the first platform holder to make a move into the next generation of gaming hardware – though he doesn’t expect any new machines to be announced in the near future. The whole jockeying for who’s going to …