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Casual games specialist PopCap has announced that Rick Fox has become the seventh member of its board of directors. We’re very happy to have Rick join our board of directors, where his decades of entrepreneurial and technology industry leadership will help us take PopCap to the next level,” PopCap CEO …
Read More »[Update] Ownership row as Zynga abolishes game
Fiasco as fans are taunted with advert for completely unrelated game
Read More »Intel named as Gaikai investor
While the leading network firm Limelight also steps out as an shareholder
Read More »Some OnLive titles platform locked
High-spec games on any platform that can go online – that was the boast of ambitious cloud gaming service OnLive, but already one title has arrived which challenges the philosophy. In an interview with Cnet, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman has admitted that EA’s Xbox and PC exclusivity deal for Mass …
Read More »Valve in dev charm offensive
Popular mod-focused group to release SDK updates, a new free game and codebase
Read More »Have we lost the casual gamer?
The UK games market has plummeted to its lowest levels in three years, with a severe decline in the casual market. According to Chart-Track, the overall UK games market has fallen 16 per cent in sales for the first half of 2010. The market was worth 963 million for the …
Read More »APB getting radical overhaul
Just days after Realtime Worlds’ ambitious open-world MMO APB finally hit UK retail, the developer has stated that it’s intending to revisit several core elements of the game. The claims follow what was a turbulent run-up to release that saw the game receive a battering from critics. Even before the …
Read More »Red 5 fights on despite engine axe
Studio says its protracted MMO project is still alive
Read More »APB features voice chat ads
In what will either be seen as an innovative piece of in-game monetization or a cynical cash cow that will inconvenience gamers, it has emerged that upcoming PC MMO shooter APB will feature ads played over the in-game voice chat channels. In addition to the standard subscription and flexible playtime …
Read More »Kotick says CoD MMO is coming
In a candid interview with The Wall Street Journal, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has claimed that he’d love to take the Call of Duty franchise into the world of massively multiplayer gaming. When asked if you could snap your fingers, and instantly make one change in your company what would …
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