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High brow US cultural magazine TIME has named EA’s Spore as the 20th ‘Best Invention of 2008′. ‘The retail DNA test’ took top spot in the list, followed by ‘The Tesla Roadster’ and ‘The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’. Of Spore, the magazine said: ‘It’s blasphemy, brilliance or both to take the …

THQ-owned studio forced to downsize after project cancellation

Though the stats have yet to be officially validated, online sales tracker VGChartz is reporting that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV has thoroughly outsold Sony’s LittleBigPlanet in the pair’s first week of sale. GTA IV, which is published by Capcom in Japan, sold 104,000 copies in its first week – …

Those in attendance at today’s 26th annual Golden Joystick Awards are currently getting stuck into the after-show drinks, with the Activision-Blizzard crowd most rapturous as the publisher celebrates a triumphant afternoon in London. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare scooped no less than four awards in total, winning the Nuts …

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Northern indie shopping title around Game Connection next week

Matthew Booty has been appointed by the Board of Directors at Midway as permanent President and CEO of the company. Booty has served as interim president and CEO of Midway Games since March this year. Booty joined Midway in 1991 as an engineer and programmer, in the year Midway launched …

Very few independent British developers can boast 18 years in the business like Team17. We caught up with Martyn Brown, Team17's veteran studio director, to talk about resurrecting classic IP, Worms, Xbox Live Arcade and life as an indie in a consolidated industry.

EA has announced a brand new version of Criterion’s popular Burnout Paradise for both Xbox 360 and PS3 that is heading to the shelves in February next year. Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box will include both of the major bits of DLC received for the game so far – namely …