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Award-winning Aardman animation Shaun the Sheep is set to shuffle onto DS this Christmas courtesy of D3 Publisher. The game will feature the much-loved characters from the series (including Shaun, Shirley, Timmy and Bitzer), along with areas and items based on the series. It’s also set to include touch screen …

36 more staff allegedly set to leave in Itagaki's wake

The Sun newsaper has reported that a parody of a padeophile website appears in Rockstar’s GTA IV. Under the headline ‘Video game has spoof perv site’, the newspaper reports that the ‘cheat’ allows the main character to ‘achieve’ a five-star wanted rating. It quotes an outraged fan of the series …

Sony has announced promotions for two of its senior Worldwide Studios executives, naming new heads for its European and American studio operations. Michael Denny and Scott Rohde have stepped up to become WWS region heads for Europe and America, respectively. Head over to our sister site Develop for more.

Near London uses Qube's tech to achieve highest-ever accuracy model of central London

Michael Denny and Scott Rohde step up to take senior roles overseeing each region

British newspaper's Monday editorial warns of 'Grand Theft Industry' if authorities don't act

Co-founders of Codemasters, David and Richard Darling, recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours

Games Investor Consulting's Rick Gibson, a member of the Games Up steering committee, runs through the reasoning behind the new campaignâ??s call for better support of the UK games industry by the Government and how it can help your games businessâ?¦

It's a tough game engine market out there, with heavyweight engines from Epic and Emergent hogging the limelight. Working in the shadows is Vicious Cycle and, as CEO and president Eric Peterson tells us, it's not just the big boys that can develop games and engines at the same time...