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2008 has been a testing year for the development industry, with plenty of challenges to overcome before the economic downturn set in properly and sent shock waves of uncertainty through numerous studios. There were positives too, and a new hope in the form of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

UK publisher 505 Games has confirmed that it is to publish a brand new title based on record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. Talk of the game first emerged earlier in the month when Phelps mentioned it in an interview on US TV show 60 Seconds. Development is being handled by …

Firm's infrastructure to power browser-based Quake Live

One year on from the release of the globally popular PS3 version of Sony’s SingStar series, the platform holder has announced that the long awaited backwards compatibility update will be released today. To read the full story, click here to head over to CasualGaming.biz.

One of the most famous pieces of vapourware is back with the news that Phantom has actually launched its online games portal – and the firm still insists that its Phantom Lapboard is on track for release next year. The online store features 2,600 PC games including recent releases such …

Canadaâ??s largest indie picks up studio from Activision Blizzard

Japanese developer and publisher Square Enix has announced that its recent Xbox 360 RPG release The Last Remnant will be released on PC across all PAL territories next spring. The format status of the game has been a constant source of speculation. For some time it was believed the game …

With just a week to go before the official Christmas number one is revealed, Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War has enjoyed its fifth consecutive week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. The WWII epic fought off stiff competition from Mario Kart Wii, …

Various sources across the industry are speculating that EA’s Black Box studio in Canada may soon be closed. Speculation from unnamed sources also suggests that because of the less than favourable nature of reviews of Need For Speed: Undercover, which also suffered relatively poor sales compared to previous iterations of …

Speculation about studioâ??s closure rife in the wake of EAâ??s job cuts