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It’s hardly the biggest surprise in the world, but a new poster advertising campaign in the US has confirmed that Final Fantasy XIII will be released in the region in 2010 – scuppering any lingering hopes that the game would make it to retail this year. The confirmation comes form …

Analyst report states that gaming's growing market is â??impossible for brands to ignoreâ?

98 per cent not paid official overtime despite average crunch of ten to 15 hours per week

Itâ??s been almost five years since EA_spouse first cast the games industryâ??s working practices into the spotlight, but how have things changed since then?

Emerging games publisher Warner Interactive has stated that its decision to bring its previously digital-only Watchmen game to retail is all part of its wider plan for the IP – though it does hint that its thinking was influenced by the need to get the title to market alongside the …

The UK video games market’s weekly value has topped 20 million for the first time since April, MCV can reveal. According to MCV calculations, based on today’s Gfk-ChartTrack/ELSPA weekly report, the UK market has hit 21.2 million for the week ending May 23rd. This is a 55 per cent rise …

â??For every Carnival Games there is a BioShock and for every Wii Fit there is a Resident Evil 5â?

Updated Rig of 24 powerful Vicon T160 cameras set up at Digicinemaâ??s new CG animation studio in Poland

Nokia has opened the doors to its much-anticipated Ovi Store, which it hopes will steal some of the mobile app initiative back from Apple. Customers can update their devices with the Ovi Store mobile app (Nokia says it is compatible with more than 50 million S60 and S40 handsets globally) …

John Broomhall talks to Sony Computer Entertainment Europeâ??s Michael Kelly about the current state of game audio and the Audio Engineering Societyâ??s new involvement in the fieldâ?¦