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Develop visits EAâ??s Guildford-based Bright Light studio to learn out about its journey to create a new casual kids franchise, and why the team has torn up the rulebook on the wayâ?¦

North American retailer GameStop has revealed to Newsweek’s Level Up blog that 64 per cent of its first-week GTA IV allocation was sold on Xbox 360. However, in a phone conversation with Newsweek, PlayStation’s senior vice president of Marketing Peter Dille has claimed that the PS3 consumer is ‘overindexing’ on …

Activision has announced that a new iteration of its classic Pifall franchise will be released on Wii in the autumn. Pitfall: The Big Adventure is in development at Activision studio Edge of Reality. Pitfall is one of the most legendary franchises in the history of videogames, so we look forward …

Sorry, Ubisoft Montreal: our monthly developer chart crowns Nintendo king once again

Studios such as Frontier and Gameloft lead the charge for Euro roll out of download service

A recent report by New York’s Centre for an Urban Future has said the core games industry is badly represented in the Big Apple – but adds that the city it is one of the leading clusters in North America when it comes to casual games. The report, called Getting …

Chinese mobile developer adopts engine for push into MMO sector

'Unique' games could be developed locally and released globally for 360 says Bill Gates

We ran a story a couple of weeks back about your increasing focus on western markets – how do you plan to do this? Do you think licensed products is a key element of this? We will decide this on an ongoing basis. Ultimately, the games we produce must be …

Rockstar’s GTA IV has retained the top spot in the ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Chart for a second week – despite a massive 77 per cent drop in sales. The record-breaking title still managed to outsell Nintendo’s Wii Fit – which held onto second spot – by 4-to-1 in the week. …