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Alex St. John replaced as CEO; around 20 staff let go

Admittedly, it was a given that titles like Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge were going to get sequels, but EA boss John Riccitiello has in an investor call spoken publicly about the projects for the first time – though he has also insisted that EA will not force an annual …

Grab your diary and pencil it in – the 2009 Develop Conference and Expo will take place from July 14th to 16th in Brighton. Back for its fourth year, the event will once again bring together the cream of the international development community for three days of learning, inspiration, networking …

With Microsoft having recently driven down the cost of its Xbox 360 SKU range, meaning that both the Arcade and Premium bundles are now cheaper than the Wii in the UK, the firm has stated that consumers should not expect further price movement for quite some time. Speaking to Videogamer, …

EA’s Spore might have been getting some love from US magazine Time , but fellow mag Fortune has seen fit to include the title in its list of ‘9 top tech flops’ for this Christmas. Other gaming companies mentioned include Microsoft and Sony, though not for their gaming output – …

Brighton-based development event returns from July 14th to 16th

Art and animation outsourcer signs multi-year deal

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 – …