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Retail giant joins with Guildhall at SMU and AIAS for Indie Game Challenge

Animation tech to be used in Robomondo's Tony Hawk: Ride

Develop â??09: FlOw and Flower developers thinks reviews miss the point

Develop â??09: Thatgamecompanyâ??s Jenova Chen urges for â??emotional gamingâ??

Glu Mobile studio head Chris White thinks not, offering tips for multiplatform porting

No-one even knew that hit GameCube, PS2 and Wii outing Resident Evil 4 was heading to iPhone until it was unexpectedly released on the App Store earlier this week.

 Tough luck if you missed it though as the game was removed from the Japanese portal moments later. The game appears …

Develop â??09:Picing of game services need to be more realistic, says Schulze and Webbâ??s Tom Armitage.

The next piece of fresh downloadable content destined for Fallout 3 will be released on Xbox Live on August 3rd, priced at 800 MS Points (6.80). Called Mothership Zeta, the expansion sees adventurers stumbling across a downed alien spaceship and subsequently being kidnapped by its orbiting alien cousins. As well …

HMV plans to launch over 30 new Gamerbase areas in its stores this year – starting with the opening of this week’s Glasgow branch. The Gamerbase ‘games experience zones’ offer multiplayer and online gaming in-store, and the initiative was voted the winner in the Retail Innovation category of this year’s …

Physical media is at the sunset of its lifespan. Eventually, all games will be based online. That was the view of industry veteran, and Gaikai founder, David Perry. Perry was speaking at an opening keynote at the fourth annual Develop Conference in Brighton, UK. In an address entitled Embracing the …