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Compression middleware aims to help cut manufacturing costs

The Leicester-based firm is being headed up by Jonathan Hales as managing director. He brings with him seven years experience from Codemasters where he was most recently VP and general manager of Northern Region Europe. Founded last year by German games industry veterans Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, Kalyso Media …

We sit down with Autodesk's Michel Kripalani and Curtis Garton to find out more about the recently announced new versions of the company's softwareâ?¦

VP Jamie MacDonald joined by SingStar guru Paulina Bozek and Home director Peter Edward

SIGGRAPH 07: Low cost sculpting/modelling hybrid tool majors in displacement painting

Chris Satchell keynote and first day XNA sessions to be available for free

Following GAME’s acquisition of rival UK High Street games retailer Gamestation in May, the Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to refer the buyout to the Competitions Commission. John Fingleton, chief executive of the OFT, stated: This merger involves the loss of competition between two parties who, …

Row deepens as UE3 vendor dubs legal action "a cynical effort"

Codemasters has opened a new UK development studio. Joining the publisher’s existing operations in Southam and Kuala Lumpur, Codemasters Studios Guildford is headed up by Adrian Bolton who was previously development director for EA Criterion. Bolton will report to Gavin Cheshire, VP of Codemasters Studios. The studio will initially target …

HMV has ruled out any plans to introduce games to its Fopp stores after purchasing the brand name and six of the chain’s most profitable outlets from administrators. Fopp was forced to close on July 31st after credit problems, which were exacerbated by the acquisition of doomed retail chain Music …