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A record number of industry professionals attended last week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and it’s fair to imagine the event was covered by more media outlets than ever. Hundreds of developers speaking at the event had their opinions republished across the world, and numerous companies used GDC as …

Compounding the widening belief that a new Grand Theft Auto could be announced at some stage this year, a casting call for a mystery new Take-Two project has got tongues wagging. A Kotaku report backs up previous claims that the game will be retuning to Los Angeles by citing a …

Online games network Eurogamer has announced that senior staff member Tom Bramwell has been promoted to the position of operations director. Eleven years into his role at the company, Bramwell will now oversee the day-to-day running of Eurogamer.net, on which he remains editor-at-large, as well as industry site GamesIndustry.biz and …

Having received word of a rumoured Australian release date this morning, a UK release date for Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been announced. GAME.co.uk has the scoop – it will hit UK retail on August 26th. The date won’t officially be announced until tomorrow, but MCV can confirm …

John Riccitiello, the CEO of publisher EA, has said that the digital version of Mass Effect 2 that was released on Sony’s PSN has been a success for several reasons. Though he stopped short of revealing the game’s exact sales numbers, IGN reports that the exec told at audience at …

We knew that a concrete release date for Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution was to be announced this week, but it looks like one retailer may have let the augmented cat out of the neon-lit futuristic bag. The Australian arm of GameStop posted the following on Twitter last night: …

Though we won’t know anything concrete for a long, long time to come, the very first roll of the dice on what will eventually become the next generation of console hardware seems to have been made.Eurogamer reports that three Microsoft job listings on LinkedIn point to the very early stages …

Mark Rein, the VP of Gears of War develop Epic Games, has stated that iOS release Infinity Blade outsold fellow digital Xbox Live Arcade release Shadow Complex. Though no exact sales numbers were given, Rein told Joystiq that the iPhone title had been "hugely successful". There are lots of mitigating …

Black Bean has partnered with specialist magazine Motor Cycle News to promote its upcoming motorbike racer, SBK 11. The tie-up has already resulted in SBK-branded bikes and demo pods filling up a booth at the Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle Show at ExCeL London, which was held last month. The pods …

Three new professionals have joined Namco Bandai’s PR and marketing team. Former Vivendi and Koch man Gary Chantler has joined the company as product manager, working on upcoming titles including Ridge Racer Unbounded, Inversion and other currently unannounced projects. He joins Blaise Rodier, who recently joined Namco Bandai and will …