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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. …

Whilst it may be the company’s newly found love for all things Wii and DS that’s hogging the limelight, EA’s new IP drive also extends to rival formats – and one of its biggest 360 and PS3 titles, Army of Two, has been confirmed for arrival this November. Arriving on …

In a session at the Games:Edu day of the Develop 2007 conference, Sarah Lamari, manager of DevNet at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has announced a deal to allow universities to have access to development-standard PSP tools for teaching purposes. Rounding off a talk dedicated to how SCEE can help universities, …

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Head of European studio recruitment champions graduates at Games:Edu event

The day's final session explores the numerous new directions for mobile games developers