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Former Project Gotham dev reportedly working on the Mario Kart-like Blur

French magazine Joypad has seemingly got the first word on Bizarre Creations’ top secret new racing IP – a combat-based arcade outing entitled Blur. Bizarre is the studio behind Microsoft’s successful Project Gotham Racing series, but having been acquired by Activision Blizzard in 2007 (and with the Gotham IP returning …

Key networking event set for June 18th at London's Sway bar

The games industry’s charity is hoping to raise both its profile and much-needed funds at this week’s MCV Awards in London. Up for grabs are a PlayStation 3 with SingStar Queen, a Nintendo DSi console, a Logitech Pure-Fi Dream speaker dock, a Logitech HD Powerline kit and 500Gb media server …

Maxis co-founder clarifies his relationship with EA following his sudden exodus

GAME has this morning finally, for the first time, started to publicly discuss the value of its pre-owned offer as part of its end-of-year results. Lisa Morgan, GAME CEO, today revealed that pre-owned games represent 18 per cent of turnover for the financial year – during which the firm reported …

GAME Group has posted encouraging gains in both turnover and profit during its preliminary results for the year ended 31 January 2009. Group turnover reached 1.97bn for the period, an impressive 32 per cent gain on the 1.49bn achieved in the same period last year. At the same time the …

Chip maker AMD saw losses widen in the first calendar quarter as the PC market went through a painful sales drought. A slump in demand for microprocessors saw quarterly sales sink by 21 per cent to reach $1.18bn, though this was still better than the previously projected result of $978 …

The 2009 Develop Awards return on Wednesday, July 15th. But what are the categories, how does anyone win and who won last time? Read on to find outâ?¦

The recently-announced Pub Fund – a scheme where Sony matches development budgets of digital games in return for PlayStation exclusivity – should be a serious consideration for any independent developer. That was the sentiment offered by James Brooksby, Studio Head of Doublesix; the first developer to release a game – …