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High Street retailer GAME has secured the services of retail veteran John Devon, who has signed up as product director. Devon joins the firm from Amazon, where he worked as DVD trading director. He has also held roles at Virgin, Woolworths and WH Smiths. At GAME, Devon will be responsible …

Play games at work! You might hope that's the message behind the new book, 'Changing the Game: How Video Games are Transforming the Business World' - but there's rather more to its central thesis. We cornered David Edery and his co-author Ethan Mollick by the watercooler for some pointers...

New Orleans studio to use tech on upcoming MMO

Electronic Arts has named Geraldine Laybourne as the newest member of its Board of Directors. Laybourne is the founder of Oxygen Media – a television network launched in 2000 targeted at younger women – where she served as chairman and chief executive officer until 2007. She also served as president …

It has emerged that the R4 card, a SD-card based device that allows DS owners to play pirated and homebrew software on their Nintendo handhelds, does not work with the upcoming DSi. Though there has been no confirmation, it is likely that the move was a deliberate one from Nintendo. …

Publisher and developer Bethesda has revealed that its critical and commercial smash Fallout 3 shipped a quite incredible 4.7 million copies across the world in its first week of sale on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Its success has already generated retail sales of over $300 million. The game, which …

UK broadsheet The Daily Telegraph has launched its own dedicated games channel online in an attempt to cash in on the booming popularity of casual gaming. To read more, head over to CasualGaming.biz.

Peter Silver Assistant Sales Manager, D3PE Peter Silver graduated in Media Studies and worked in various sales roles outside the industry before joining D3P in 2007. Since then he has managed D3P’s business in a diverse portfolio of accounts and territories ranging from Gamestation to HMV and Russia to Australia. …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has talked for the first time about what led to the company dropping ex-Vivendi franchises such as Ghostbusters and 50 Cent: and blamed a less than tolerant” retail environment. Speaking in the company’s earning call following the announcement of its Q3 fiscal results, Kotick was …

Gaming has once again found itself in the headlines today with UK broadsheet The Daily Telegraph lashing out a casual game based on suicide bombing. The Telegraph joins The Daily Star in expressing outrage at the game, entitled Kaboom: The Suicide Bombing Game, which has attracted the attention of the …