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Hard times continue, says CEO Mark Gerhard, but UK does not deserve to be painted in a bad light

Jagex is expanding intensely. Will Freeman talks to CEO Mark Gerhard about the studio's future

Leamington Spa start-up optimistic about UK development scene as it instigates substantial headcount boost

Redundancies have been issued to a number of developers at Brighton studio Black Rock, Disney has told Develop. In a statement the firm said "Disney Interactive Studios confirms a reduction of its workforce from the Brighton-based internal game development studio, Black Rock Studios." The company did not state how many …

The positions of both chief executive SIr Howard Stringer and corporate executive officer and executive VP Kaz Hirai are under threat as a result of the ongoing PSN saga. That’s the opinion of two fund managers speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian. "The way Sony handled the whole thing goes …

Dundee outfit Cohort Studios has ceased operations, the company has announced. The studio, which opened in 2006, said it had closed down after experiencing difficulties of being a console developer in a declining console marketplace”. Some 25 staff have been made redundant. For more on this story as it happens, …

This week attention turns to work in the Netherlands

Two of the most powerful men in games were stood just metres apart at GDC last week, delivering back-to-back keynotes. Yet their ideologies are worlds apart, and couldn’t more accurately convey the creative crossroad the games industry faces. On one stage at the Moscone Centre, San Francisco: Nintendo boss Saturo …

Staff across Sony’s UK studios are anxiously waiting to see if they will be spared from a restructuring process now underway. Sony Liverpool, Sony London, and Evolution Studios will each be affected by the reorganisation, Sony has confirmed. Unannounced projects will be streamlined or cut”, the firm said, though added …

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 …