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Mark Jacobs leaves as EA streamlines studios

Bethesda parent ZeniMax Media has this afternoon made a surprise move and bought id Software. The creator of franchises such as Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein will now come under the firm’s ownership along with its upcoming game Rage. Bethesda will publish all of id’s games going forward – except for …

Daniel Jones, the director of developer Binary Tweed and the man behind Xbox Live Community Games hit Clover has cast doubt on the credentials of Microsoft’s indie publishing platform as a viable avenue to market. Frustratingly enough, the critical reception to the game has been good," Jones stated. "The size …

Bethesda parent makes surprise swoop for creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein

Latest version adds terrain, hardware skinning and Flash support

Charlie Brooker has confirmed that his games TV show has been commissioned, MCV can reveal. Gameswipe is a spin-off from Brooker’s popular BBC Four programmes Screenwipe and Newswipe. Brooker confirmed via his Twitter account: ‘Gameswipe is happening, yes. More on that nearer the time.’ MCV revealed that Brooker was producing …

The motion sensing wireless microphones bundled with Microsoft’s karaoke title Lips are to get their own SKU as the platform holder looks to talk up the benefits of the peripherals in all of the console’s music titles. CasualGaming.biz has the full compatibility list – click here to take a look.

THQ has restructured its business into three new units – housing core, casual and online games. As a result, key exec Ian Curran (pictured) has been promoted to EVP for Global Publishing, and will oversee worldwide revenue for THQ. Curran’s responsibilities include sales, distribution and channel and territory marketing for …

Global Industry Analysts expects the global gaming market will be worth $91 billion by 2015. This prediction was published in GIA’s latest report, Video Games: A Global Strategic Business Report, which looks at gaming trends between 2001 and 2015. The firm attributed the expected growth in market value to the …

Mastertronic wants to take modest games to the fierce retail arena, World of Goo to draw first blood