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The Prince Edward Island, Canada-based studio owned by Foundation 9 has been spun out away from the company's ownership.

Reports on the web have suggested that Company of Heroes producer John Johnson is planning to open a new studio, called Smoking Gun Games.

UK independent studio Blitz has added a new advergaming team to its Arcade division.

Independent studio nDreams, formed by SCi/Eidos vet Patrick O'Luanaigh, has started to reveal details of its first "revolutionary" title - a story-based casual game for women.

John Woo plans to direct and produce the movie adaptation of a new game from Warren Spector.

Look out Sports Interactive, Monumental is kicking about on your turf with a new football MMO.

A new retail-focused show called GamePlan will take place in a central London hotel over June 5th and 6th 2008. Co-organised by Barrington Harvey and Tandem Events, it will provide a meeting place for publishers and retailers to do business away from the razzmatazz of a stand-based show. "Since E3 …

As well as confirming that a demo of the game will appear on Xbox Live next Wednesday, Midway has apparently confirmed that its upcoming WWII FPS Hour of Victory will be released on June 22nd, according to Eurogamer . The demo, much like the game, will offer three playable characters …

The team behind Lego Star Wars hasn't yet exhausted George Lucas' six films for material - it's working on another game in the franchise and will remake the poorly-reviewed Nintendo DS version.

Valve has revealed that some 13 million gamers have now signed up to use its Steam digital downloads service. The developer best know for its ultra-successful Half-Life franchise has also announced that more than 150 PC games can now be downloaded via the service. In Steam’s case, we have millions …