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'Developers are a footloose bunch' says Toronto-based senior reporter

Electronic Arts has unveiled its 8lb Gorilla; the newest addition to its fleet of development studios. 8lb Gorilla will strengthen EA’s push into the ever-growing iPhone and App Store scene, though the studio’s production schema – to release unique, unadulterated and particularly cheap titles on a monthly basis – will …

ELSPA wants to take advantage of its strengthened relationship with the Government to get more important issues for the industry discussed in Parliament. After the body’s success in lobbying the Government to choose PEGI as the UK’s only age classification system, it has now turned its attention to tax breaks, …

Our relationship with Government has changed – along with our attitude, says the trade body’s director general Michael Rawlinson… PEGI’s ascent to becoming the sole ratings system for games was a momentous achievement for the industry – and just goes to show how we can really get the Government’s attention …

Nokia has shut down its Vancouver-based game studio, affecting some 100 jobs in the process, Develop understands. Nokia’s N-Gage Design Studio in Vancouver had developed a significant number of titles for the first and second generation N-Gage systems, as well as for mobile phones. The group worked on franchises such …

One year, 65,000 Apps, over a billion downloads - three Develop features look at the making of goliath

Louisiana to give local developers 25% tax credit, 10% wage credit

Ngmocoâ??s Alan Yu interviewed

8lb Gorilla wants to develop small, niche and cheap titles for Appleâ??s game platform

Firms' engine and physics products to be integrated