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Facial animation tech adds support for FaceGen models

Midway has announced the promotion of CEO and President Matt Booty to Chairman of the Board – as former boss Peter C Brown steps down. Booty will also retain his CEO and President titles. Booty has been president and CEO of the company since October 2008 but he served as …

Woolworths is to make a Lazarus-like return as an online brand after it was bought by Shop Direct. Shop Direct is the UK’s biggest internet and home shopping retailer, and also owns brands such as the Littlewoods catalogue and plans to launch Woolworths online in the summer following a deal …

Book Publisher Schoolastic is eyeing up the UK market with its video games label, Elastic. Elastic released Ultimate I Spy on Wii and Goosebumps Horrorland on Wii, DS and PS2 in the US last year. And now the publisher is targeting the UK sector, by seeking out potential distributors. At …

DRM technologies might not be popular with gamers, but content has to be protected regardless. Ed Fear speaks with some of the leading security tech providers to find out how to get players to accept DRMâ?¦

Compared to the original DS/PSP showdown, the recent head-to-head between Sony and Nintendoâ??s revised handheld consoles has been a rather limp-wristed affair.

After six months of press, lobbying and reports, Games Up? has almost run its intended course.

I am writing this article on an excellent, professional word processing software application that was not developed by a corporation, but by a group of individuals motivated to create a better word processor than Microsoft Word.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed that DJ Hero, a dance-music themed take on the Guitar Hero formula, is in development and will be out later this year. The game will come bundled with a record-deck peripheral and will more likely than not be released on a wide range …

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