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Back in December 2007, MCV reported that a certain game had cooked up one million sales in Europe, after only a year of release. Shortly afterwards the game got international credentials, when it clocked up 1.6 million sales in the US. Not bad for a DS and Wii game based …

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BBC current affairs TV show Newsnight has filmed two boys playing a ’15’-rated game in front of one of its reporters – despite the pair clearly being younger than the title’s BBFC age classification. Last Wednesday evening’s episode of the show featured an examination of the legacy of media critic …

Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, has said that the firm must "continue to grow at a rapid pace in the years to come" to remain competitive – revealing he has up to 780m Euros (or $1.2bn) to spend on acquiring studios or publishers which will grow the company. Speaking to …

Prime Minister endorses 20 per cent production cost tax credit as pressure mounts on UK Government

French publisher CEO looks to 'rapidly' grow company via various means including films, licences and development deals

But show editor tells Develop that episode showing children playing 15-rated games is true to life

Manufacturer Nvidia has blasted claims that PC gaming is dying, insisting that ChartTrack and NPD data fail to provide a full account of the strength of the format. Roy Taylor, VP of content & developer relations at Nvidia said that the charts don’t take into account the changing nature of …

This momentary lapse of judgement, however, was worth it – if only to proudly read in the paper about the Games Up campaign which, as you’ll have read in the story on the right (and via Develop’s email newsflashes earlier this week), has seen 15 games studios and the industry’s …

PC-only release Age Of Conan has taken the top spot in the official German and Swedish charts – finally relegating Rockstar’s GTA IV from its No.1 position . The title’s Collector’s Edition also charted at No.6 in Germany – once again demonstrating the territory’s idiosyncratic love for PC gaming – …