ExclusivePolitics / Business

7 Livingstone: Skills Review can "change perceptions of industry"

Livingstone: Skills Review can "change perceptions of industry"

Government-backed report to be published in early 2011 and will "set a blueprint to transform the UK"


ExclusiveBusiness

We must be positive about UK industry - Rawlinson

We must be positive about UK industry - Rawlinson

UKIE director general believes business is still growing; will continue to push for tax breaks

ExclusiveOnline

18 OnLive: "Do we need boxes anymore?"

OnLive: "Do we need boxes anymore?"

Executive producer predicts end of consoles and talks of 300-person multiplayer for cloud gaming

Developers

27 Only 4% of UK games industry staff are female

Only 4% of UK games industry staff are female

BSA survey blames long hours culture for decline from 12% in 2006

Retail

3 Amazon challenges retail with 99c release day delivery

Amazon challenges retail with 99c release day delivery

US online store ditches $6 delivery tithe for major games

People / Developers

2 Katamari creator leaves "so-so" Namco Bandai

Katamari creator leaves "so-so" Namco Bandai

Keita Takahashi walks following moans about employer, 3D and motion control

Casual / Online

17% of social network gamers think themselves "addicted"

17% of social network gamers think themselves "addicted"

Lightspeed survey finds 58% of social networkers use it for games

In Other News

People / Events

Full list of speakers issued for MIGS

Over 80 industry figures joining keynotes by Ed Fries and Ron Carmel in Montreal

Developers / Mobile

Flight Control sells over 3m copies in 18 months

Firemint's iOS game still in App Store top 30 in 64 countries

Events

7

68,000 attend PAX, international follow-up planned

Latest Penny Arcade expo is largest consumer show in US

Hardware / Retail

2

Microsoft confirms 250GB Xbox and Kinect pack for £300

Kinect's release date and launch titles in Japan also revealed

Publishers / Online

6

Dead Rising: Case Zero passes 300,000 downloads

Public leaderboards of paid-for 360 prequel show strong global sales in first week

Politics / Publishers

News Corp publishes North Korean games

Big Lebowski Bowling part of "first Western IT venture" from Kim Jong Il's nation

Publishers / Business

ELSPA relaunches as UKIE

Trade organisation expands remit to cover whole interactive entertainment spectrum

Publishers / People

Bethesda chooses Benelux for fifth international office

Eindhoven-based Menno Eijck to oversee operations in Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Online / Emerging Markets

3

Championship Manager expands to China

Beautiful Game Studios partnering with Shanda Games for emerging market

Events

Develop Liverpool issues speaker call

Submissions for the November event now open, until early October

Games / Politics

8

Austria bans Muslim-killing game

Swiss-made title "Bye Bye Mosque" slammed by president Fischer and UN's Ban Ki-moon

Games / People

1

Activision confirms celebrity cast for Black Ops

Gary Oldman and Ed Harris given speaking parts in Treyarch's new CoD

Hardware

5

Glasses-free 3D arcade machines for Japan

SI Electronics' Y3 board is high-def 3D with no goggles required

Hardware / Publishers

17

Latest PlayStation 3 firmware prevents PSjailbreak

Sudden 3.42 system software update reportedly blocks piracy-enabling exploit

Interview

2 UKIE's Michael Rawlinson

UKIE's Michael Rawlinson

More detail on the ELSPA-UKIE transformation, and what we can expect in the future

Interview

6 OnLive's Tom DuBois

OnLive's Tom DuBois

The executive producer on cloud gaming, iPad and being valued at $1bn

Interview

GameCity's Iain Simons

GameCity's Iain Simons

The festival organiser on exposing the humanity at the core of the games industry

Interview

PopCap's Jason Kapalka (Part Two)

Editorial

17

Jobs' Game

Interview

PopCap's Jason Kapalka (Part One)

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