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SOE boss John Smedley has outlined his company’s plan to target children and families – and retailers – with its new MMO Free Realms at the GamesBeat conference today. Smedley told attendees at the the event, organised by VentureBeat, that Sony Online Entertainment – which is now a division of …

GDC 09: Free Realms developed with kids in mind

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GDC 09: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator to work with studio on Fistful of Blood

Alexey Pajitnov, the original designer and creator of Russian gaming sensation Tetris, is on board as one of the team bringing Tetris to a whole new generation of gamers in the newly revealed Tetris Friends Online Games. Other members of Pajitnov’s team include former Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa …

GDC 09: Game development platform supports new audio, video and 3D capabilities

The official ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack charts are in – but it’s not all about the All Formats list. By visiting MCV’s official single format charts each week, you can keep fully up-to-date with what’s going on at UK tills. Resident Evil 5 continues to dominate both PS3 and Xbox 360’s lists this …

Just hours after publisher Bethesda released its second piece of Xbox 360 exclusive DLC for Fallout 3, the firm has been forced to remove the content after a number of users reported game-crippling bugs. The DLC, entitled The Pitt, was released earlier today but was available on Xbox Live for …

GDC 09: New 360 development kits part of effort to 'reduce the cost of art development'

GDC 09: XNA competition starts Monday, April 6th