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Forthcoming shooter The Scourge Project will use Epicâ??s Unreal Engine 3

DEVELOP CONFERENCE: Philips has signed six new developer license agreements for the amBX platform

DEVELOP CONFERENCE: Popular radio show and podcast records show at expo

DEVELOP CONFERENCE: Katie Ellwood discusses developers' assumptions about writers

Nintendo’s net sales rose to 340,439m Yen between April and June this year, compared with last year’s figure of 130,919m Yen – a huge leap of 160 per cent. Operating income rose to 90,631m Yen, up 214.7 per cent. Recurring profits were up 302.3 per cent, while net income was …

NCsoft’s Richard Garriott has opened the main two-day Develop conference with a speech dissecting the MMO genre he helped build, saying games developers have failed to add anything new to online game design since the release of his first game Ultima Online in 1997. He said: "Game design has not …

World of Warcraft’s ever growing subscription base has reached nine million, ahead of the release of the expansion pack World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade in mainland China. The game has risen to become the most popular MMORPG since debuting in North America in 2004, while The Burning Crusade expansion …

Ubisoft’s sales for the first quarter ended June 30 2007 came to a whopping €134 million, up 90.5 per cent. This year’s figure dwarfs the €70 million recorded for the same period last year. For the first quarter 2007-08 79 per cent of the Group’s sales came from games for …

DEVELOP CONFERENCE: Keynote from MMO guru says derivative game design "undersells" growing genre to interested consumers

Although details about Avatar are thin on the ground, the fact that the movie will be James Cameron’s first since 1997’s Titanic will guarantee it huge attention when it arrives in May 2009 – so Ubisoft is rightly pleased that it has snapped up the rights to publish the game. …