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After a weekend of technical woes following the release of Konami’s Metal Online Beta on Sony’s PlayStation Network, the publisher has officially taken its servers offline until it figures out a way to cope with the huge traffic heading towards them. The beta appeared on PS3’s PSN for download on …

Two new degree programmes approved by Middlesex University

Now called Blitz Games Studios, with 11 games in the works across five divisions - Volatile, Arcade, Games, TruSim and BlitzTech

Scottish studio cuts out publisher and looks to 'take a more active role in managing global distribution strategy' of its MMO

The gaming community is already uniting to hunt down early copies of GTA IV on forums across the world – but will you be breaking the street date? Do you expect another major game release to be damaged by early selling – and what is the solution? Is early selling …

Vice president of creativity at Rockstar Games Dan Houser also took a swipe at the way his competitors market their games, while also stressing the increasing cultural relevance of video games in an extensive interview on Variety’s games blog. A lot of our competitors in the game sphere – all …

That a triple-A games studio would start sharing presentations and resources that it created when getting to grips with the PS3 is surprising, but that it would then start sharing code as well is unprecedented. We caught up with Mike Acton, Insomniac's engine director, to discuss the initiative in depth.

'Compete with content, not tech,' says dev behind Ratchet and Resistance with launch PS3 secret-sharing scheme

And he rules out the chances of Wii version of Unreal Engine, saying 'we go forward, not back'

Rockstar co-founder and GTA writer discusses the production of Grand Theft Auto