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Update brings image differencing and more support for distributed development

Brash Entertainment will release a video game adaptation of Prison Break on PS3 and Xbox 360 in February next year. The company has confirmed that the small screen adaptation will follow up its Hollywood tie-ins for movies such Jumper, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Space Chimps. Eagle-eyed fans noticed an …

From simple multiplayer tools, GameSpyâ??s technology now enables sophisticated features such as data mining and in-game commerceâ?¦

PSP owners will be able to download highlights of football matches from the Barclay’s Premiership via video service Go!View, Sony has announced. From Sunday, 17th August, users will be able to transfer 45 minutes of extended highlights from Sky Sports matches. The football content on Go!View is available as part …

Developers' association welcomes QA and creative testing firm

More mergers are going to continue "and you can't stop it" claims Silicon Knights head

Renamed DS audio middleware now official 3rd party tool

Middleware trial 'is proceeding' says Silicon Knights Denis Dyack

Next week sees the release of Canadian studio Silicon Knights' Xbox 360 epic Too Human. We recently caught up with studio head Denis Dyack to find out more about the studio, its pending legal action against Epic Games, and his views on life as an independent studio in North Americaâ?¦

Sony will not announce a price cut to its flagship PlayStation 3 games console at the Leipzig trade expo next week, the company has confirmed. "It’s not going to happen. If you’re coming for that you’ll be disappointed," Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Nick Caplin told Reuters. SCEE president David Reeves …