Fragile Finances
Nintendo's financials are in trouble - but the company's losses don't mean it's Game Over
GamesIndustry.biz and BAFTA to present Games Question Time
Limited free tickets for event offered to GamesIndustry.biz readers
THQ lays off publishing and admin staff
Another round of redundancies at publisher but internal development studios safe for now
Cuts at Future US and IGN sites
19 jobs lost at Future, Voodoo Extreme, GameSpy and Team Xbox affected at IGN
New Nintendo Network may offer full game purchases
Wii-U and 3DS specific service expands on services, including DLC
UKIE sponsors Blitz students
Blitz Games Studios Open Days attendees can apply for aid with travel expenses
Roblox sees 109 per cent increase in user generated content
While vice president of marketing exits company after one year
ESA reimbursed for violent video game legal battle
Brings total reimbursement received to $3.1 million
Price, Pearce, Capps added to D.I.C.E. Summit
Las Vegas exec summit adds final sessions of veteran developers
Virgin Gaming hits 1 million registered users
Competitive gaming platform has dished out $7m in prizes
Tagged to shut down Hi5's third-party dev platform
Service "wasn't nearly as vibrant as we felt it could be," says new owner
NCsoft says Bluehole Studio stole assets for TERA
Claims ex-employees took "copious amounts of confidential and proprietary NCsoft information, computer software, hardware and artwork"
Apple "ignoring not solving" Chinese factory conditions - report
UPDATE: Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to New York Times article in leaked internal e-mail
UKIE: Digital chart can work without Steam
Organisation explains why the UK download chart will be important, with or without Valve
Kim Dotcom denied bail before extradition hearing
Megaupload founder decided to be flight risk by judge
Art Of Crime partners with Habbo Hotel SVP
Family MMO Crimeville set to expand after success in Scandanavia
Denki: Marketing behind Quarrel publisher struggle
MD says acquisition teams were superseded by finance and marketing
3DS dominating Japanese top ten as release schedule picks up
Wipeout Vita doesn't chart as system sees no top twenty places
Editorial
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Talking Loud, Saying Nothing
Three years of repeating a "focus on the core" mantra, but THQ still has nothing to show for it. Is time up for another publisher?
Interview
1
Back From The Dead
Red 5 Studios' Mark Kern on the League For Gamers, the lingering threat of piracy legislation, and the erosion of publisher power
Digital Foundry
11
Inside Raspberry Pi
An in-depth Digital Foundry interview on the remarkable capabilities of the upcoming $25 credit-card sized computer
Interview
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Global Game Jam Birmingham City University
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Bit of Alright Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre, London
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Casual Connect Europe 2012 CONGRESS CENTER HAMBURG
8 -10 Feb 12
D.I.C.E. Summit 2012 Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas
9 Feb 12
Virtual Community Summit Royal Institution of GB, London
11 -12 Feb 12
AltDevConf 2012 Online
15 -19 Feb 12
GEEK 2012 Margate, Kent
16 Feb 12
Hironobu Sakaguchi at BAFTA he British Academy of Film and Television Arts, London
22 Feb 12
Test Fest 2012 Metropole Hotel, Brighton
5 -9 Mar 12
GDC 2012 San Francisco, US
5 -7 Mar 12
Game Connection America San Francisco
