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'There needs to be a hell of a lot more communication on both sides,' says award-winning scribe

Casual games portal Boonty, which is owned by US-based Caf.com, has been sold to French digital content firm Nexway for an undisclosed amount. Boonty co-founders Mathieu and Roman Nouzareth claim that the sale will allow them to focus on their other social games site Caf.com. The news was exclusively revealed …

Games analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Sony will slash the price of the 80GB PS3 in North America from $399 to $299 this April. The news follows reports in the Japanese press claiming that Sony will report a $1.1bn operating loss for its financial year ending March 31st. The …

Presto Veteran's Chameleon JumpSuit installed in University library

Software demo to tour UK in March

PS3 platform holder Sony is expected to post an operating loss of $1.1bn for its financial year ending March 31st, according to Japanese business daily the Nikkei. Reuters reports that the loss could be as high as $2.2bn depending on how the next three months pan out for the firm. …

Tesco has reported a like-for-like sales rise of 2.5 per cent for the seven weeks to January 10th – its smallest Christmas rise since 1993. The supermarket has announced plans to create 10,000 new jobs by December despite the setback. The like-for-like sales discounted gains from new stores. Total group …

GAME has appointed Terry Scicluna as executive director, after joining the firm on October 15th 2008 as chief operating officer. Scicluna joined GAME from Alliance Boots, and has 30 years experience in retail. He has previously worked as managing director of UniChem and as COO at Alliance Pharmacy. He has …

With gamers and specialist press putting more emphasis on stories in games, itâ??s now the norm to work with a writer during the development process. We picked five of the UKâ??s top games writers to talk about where weâ??ve come, and how far we still have to goâ?¦

A survey conducted by The British Chambers of Commerce have found that the nations’ economy is in the midst of a frightening deterioration”, with December’s High Street numbers proving the worst since the body began monitoring them in 1989. The BCC went on to predict that official government figures set …