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Exclusive interview with Valve's Kim Swift details Portal evolution process

Trilogy Logistics has recruited Lisa Derbyshire to its Board as trading director. Derbyshire has a wealth of experience within distribution having worked with Deluxe, before running her own firm, consulting for the likes of Sony DADC, 2entertain and Tesco. We are very pleased to have such a well established person …

At GDC, Autodesk announced its intention to buy French AI specialist Kynogon, makers of the Kynapse middleware. We speak to those involved to find out what the deal means for the industryâ?¦

Spanish developer looking to expand Doodle Hex franchise

Over 250 jobs around the world - from Seattle to London, via Scotland and Canada - are listed on developmag.com

After a web-based leak at the weekend appeared to announce the existence of Prey 2, official word has now emerged of the follow-up to 2K Games’ Xbox 360 and PC FPS. The game is being handled by new developer Radar Group, which is being headed up by 3D Realms’ Scott …

Speaking on his brand new blog , EA Sports boss and former Xbox head Peter Moore has said that gamers can expect an announcement about a new EA Sports IP pretty soon. I’ve seen speculation the past few days about the comments we’ve made recently about new IP coming this …

Electronic Arts has extended its agreement with video game advertising network, Massive. Massive is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, and the new deal allows advertisers to engage with EA’s audience through its roster of games on Xbox 360 and PC. EA games that will be available in the Massive …

Having shifted a considerable 1.4 million units since its release in the territory on March 9th, Wii title Super Smash Bros Brawl has officially become the fastest selling Nintendo game ever in North America. A huge 874,000 copies of the game were sold on its first day at retail, and …

That PC superdeveloper Valve hired a group of students to work on their own title was surprising enough news, but no-one could have imagined that the game they would make would be many people's pick of 2007. We caught up with Kim Swift to talk portals, education and companion cubes.