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Pirates of the Caribbean director says designers should have ideas which make executives "shit themselves"

Funcom has suffered declining operating losses, as well as a decline in revenues during the fourth quarter of 2007. The developer of upcoming MMO, Age of Conan, has reported that group operating losses increased from $1 million to $3.1 million in the fourth quarter. The company has also revealed that …

Double Fusion has announced a partnership with Spill Group, a generator of online game traffic. The video game advertising provider is set to serve Spill’s Casual Games portals with exclusive open ads for GamesGames.com and GirlsGoGames.com. The partnership includes the sales of pre-and post-roll advertising, custom sponsorships and web inventory, …

I-play research claims casual gamers are twice as likely to play mobile games

Designers of casual games must stop copying each other and look to new ideas, says Chris Early

GHOSTBUSTERS PUBLISHER: Vivendi/Sierra RELEASED: Autumn FORMAT: DS/Wii/PS2/PC/PS3/360 Gamers have long dreamed of having the chance to destroy the StayPuft Marshmallow man, or tear after Slimer in a hushed hotel ever since the release of Ivan Reitman’s classic action comedy back in 1984. Now, thanks to the chaps and chapesses at …

gameZindia.com launched by ChaYoWo

Infrastructure grows with Montreal facility to support multiplayer gaming

Latest version adds dynamic pathfinding and multicore support

Speakers invited to step up for August event - deadline is April 30th