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The first Develop Pub Quiz will take place on the evening of Tuesday July 29th in Brighton, offering games developers based in the UK city – or those in town for the Develop conference which takes place that week – the chance to knock back a beer or two and …

News just in: Naomi Campbell has been sentenced to 200 hours community service after pleading guilty to flailing pathetically at two coppers in Heathrow airport. We’ll allow you to take a therapeutic Friday moment of Zen to picture her scrubbing graffiti in her dainty Jimmy Choos… Done? Good. If you …

Join us and find out at the Develop Pub Quiz on Tuesday July 29th in Brighton

Anonymous studio exec quoted as saying skills shortage is due to 'aging' industry

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It seems that Nintendo has decided to take action on the growing homebrew Wii community following news that its latest update to the Wii’s firmware (version 3.3) removes files associated with ‘unauthorised modifications’ from users’ machines, according to Joystiq . In addition, GoNintendo reports that it also seems that firmware …

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has called on Rockstar to remove a joke ‘paedophile’ website from GTA IV. As reported by MCV earlier this week, some fans of the game had become uncomfortable with a ‘cheat’, which let them log onto a banned in-game website …

London Mayor Boris Johnson has pointed the finger at violent video games for being a cause of knife crime in the Capital. In a piece railing against ‘London’s knife crisis’ written for thelondonpaper, the blunder-prone public figure writes: We must show young people that knives are not cool, and for …

Sony Corp. chairman Howard Stringer has said the company’s top management priority is to restore profitability in our television and game businesses.” Stringer made the comment at Sony’s annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo yesterday. Last month, Sony predicted its games division is set to its first annual profit in three …

Trevor Bish-Jones, CEO for UK retailer Woolworths has left his position at the firm in what the retailer has described as an amicable split. Richard North, chairman for Woolworths, said: The search for his successor is underway but in the meantime we are pleased that he has agreed to stay …