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A dozen different companies picked up awards at last night’s trade awards, but the event was still dominated by Nintendo. The Japanese giant’s impact on the booming UK games industry over the past 12 months pushed it to victory across four award categories. Nintendo won prizes for PR Team, Marketing …

Plans build for Julyâ??s Develop Conference and Expo as first set of speakers are named

Prize crowns 12 months of activity that has included DiRT and new engine EGO

180+ jobs - from Australia to Seattle, via Ireland â?? listed now on developmag.com

Ideaworks3D's cross-platform mobile environment now compatible with Nokia's new platform

The Guardian newspaper has defended the video games industry on its opinion pages – in an article that suggests children whose parents stop them playing games are ‘deprived’. The piece, penned by games writer Naomi Alderman, begins with a reference to the banning of Eidos’ Kane & Lynch advertising by …

The Xbox 360 motion-sensing controller reported on by MTV is real, says 8BitJoystick , and will see a release before the end of the year. According to what the site calls ‘internal sources at Microsoft’, the tech will be remarkably similar to the Wii’s, with a sensor bar, accelerometer, gyroscopic …

The head of EA’s casual and mobile games business Kathy Vrabeck has forecast that interactive entertainment may evolve to the point that it is now longer referred to as ‘games’. Next-Gen.biz reports that Vrabeck added user-generated content and personalisation of games worlds will become ‘everything’ to consumers. Vrabeck was speaking …

President of EA Sports Peter Moore has predicted that games will play a vital role in the mental and physical health of mainstream consumers in future – claiming that software will allow gamers to do things with games in their own houses that they just can’t do at the gym”. …

UK studio is top-ranking European independent in Develop 100