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A British woman has been ordered to pay US games developer Topware Interactive 16,000 for illegally downloading one of its games from a file-sharing site. According to The Telegraph, the prosecution could open the floodgates for other games, music and film companies to claim back millions of pounds in damages …

Management system to provide infrastructure for publisher's 'online plans'

New service offers simple music and HD sound effect solution

Britsoft publisher signs up French studio's open world racer

Continuing our series of features profiling the key winners from this yearâ??s Develop Awards we speak to James Brooksby, head of Doublesix, winner of the Best New UK/European Studio awardâ?¦

Gareth Edmondson says Ubisoft would match investment in other territories, but only if Government stepped up

Artificial intelligence package AI.implant is available for commercial licensing. Again.

Electronic Arts says newly-opened 200-strong India studio can 'enhance the local gaming ecosystem'

Team GB’s gold medal haul at the Olympic Games this week has helped Sega’s official Beijing Olympics game bound up the UK charts – but it still can’t top sales of Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Mario Kart. According to official GFK-ChartTrack/ELSPA data Mario Kart Wii climbs from third spot to …

But warns that Activision-Blizzard-style mass-scale merger 'can be very damaging to a global company'