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British studio given tight deadline with game to launch next spring

The cash-strapped core gamer has found an unexpected ally in the rally against Project $10 – Activision’s Bobby Kotick. Publishers such as EA, THQ, Microsoft and many more are increasingly choosing to includes DLC codes with their new releases. These can be redeemed against additional in-game content or are sometimes …

Develop looks at four companies at the heart of the Québec development cluster

Loss-making publisher looks to spread its business across XBLA, PSN And PC

The Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo has been downloaded 2m times in just two weeks, EA confirmed today. Players clocked up more than 54m miles of road racing and over 20m successful police busts from the day the demo arrived on October 26th to November 9th. During the course …

Publisher EA has announced that it has updated the terms of its global publishing agreement with LucasArts that will see it assume extra responsibilities toward the title. The company will now handle additional publishing, marketing and distribution responsibilities that LucasArts was previously handling. It claims the move has been made …

Owners of either Rock Band or Rock Band 2 will not be able to download any future releases on the title’s in-game app store. Effective as of October 26th 2010, all DLC releases will work exclusively with Rock Band 3 only. Owners of the new game will be able to …

EA has today announced that Luis Ubinas has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Ubinas is president of the Ford Foundation, where he oversees the operations and management of more than $10 billion in assets and over $500m in annual giving. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was a …

Angry Birds studio said to be targeting 100 staff mark in near future

All sports content to be made through a single studio in efficiency savings