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Developers offered cash prizes for building netbook specific games

Project manager Erik Johnson on turning a quaint puzzle game into a triple-A product

Green Man Gaming is hiring seven new recruits after securing additional funding. The ambitious digital firm is also launching its mobile Android platform next year, and is seeking partnerships with retailers across the world – including those based in the US. CEO Paul Sulyok said: We will be rolling our …

Trion Worlds, the heavily VC-funded MMO start-up, has spent over $50 million on its first project, the group’s boss has confirmed. That project, entitled Rift: Planes of Telara, has been in development for some four years due to project delays. Trion CEO Lars Buttler told Develop the game’s exorbitant budget …

Indie dev would be dead and buried were it not for Valveâ??s digital distribution system

The administrator in charge of troubled Dundee developer Realtime Worlds have released some stats that it hopes will make MMO APB an appealing purchase for a would-be buyer. The game currently has 130,000 registered users who play the title on average for four hours every day. An average of $28 …

Rising Star and Gamebridge have announced they will launch a new range of DSiWare titles next week. The GO Series will feature high quality downloadable games from a variety of renowned Japanese studios, including G-mode, ArtePiazza, SUZAK and TOM CREATE. Between them, they have produced well-know games from leading franchises …

The US arm of retailer Amazon has revealed an Ultimate Edition of EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which will include all of the content that has been released digitally since the game’s launch earlier this year. In the box is the original Limited Edition version of the game that includes …

The introduction of the new digital chart presents a significant milestone for the industry. You might not think so at first glance. Yes, it’s just a list of numbers – like every other Chart-Track report. And yes, there are things missing – no MMOs and micro-transactions just yet, and it’s …

New application promises to help indies overcome distribution challenge