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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 …

SIGGRAPH: Four GPU machine designed for offline graphical tasks

While US and Japanese gamers continue to snap up PS3 hardware for as much as 150 cheaper than UK consumers, several leading industry execs have criticised the console’s controversial 425 price tag. Duncan Cross, head of games at supermarket giant Asda, strongly believes that the Sony console needs a helping …

2007 event confirmed with Dave Perry keynote

EA Tiburon founder to look after Live, Games for Windows, Casual, MSN and XNA

Pac-Man creator to present three-hour talk at TGS umbrella event