Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish developer of the Angry Birds series, has announced plans to open an office in Swedish capital Stockholm.
The company seeks a general manager for the studio, which is to open its doors later this year and will house between 20 and 30 staff by the end of its first year in business.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is the new number one in the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
A strong debut for Capcom's cooperative shooter means last week's number one, EA's five-a-side football title FIFA Street, slips to number two, ahead of Mass Effect 3 in third.
The only other new entry this week is Kid Icarus: Uprising, Masahiro Sakurai's 3DS debut entering the chart in a lowly 13th place.
Our May issue, which goes on sale April 11, includes a Post Script article which looks at what other games in the horror genre can learn from Downpour.
Game's reward card scheme has been reactivated by its administrators, PWC.
In a series of tweets, the retailer confirms that the loyalty scheme, which was shut down on Monday, is back online - giving a glimmer of hope to the retailer's prospects of a positive outcome from administration.
Japanese developer Vanillaware has insisted it hasn't cancelled PS3 and Vita action-RPG Dragon's Crown.
Fears were raised over the status of the game earlier this week when Amazon told US customers it was cancelling pre-orders for the game, and removed the listing from its site entirely. Vanillaware artist Shigatake took to Twitter to confirm that the game was still in the works.
Peter Molyneux, Cliff Bleszinski and Ian Livingstone will help coach the teams taking part in Epic Games' iOS game jam at the Gadget Show Live next month.
Make Something Unreal Live will see four teams spend 48 hours making iOS games in Epic's Unreal Engine, based on Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy novels.
Capcom's Yoshinori Ono has said he is taking a break from Street Fighter development following his hospitalisation late last week.
The chairman of Eve Online's player-elected Council Of Stellar Management (CSM) has resigned from his position after he encouraged attendees of last weekend's Eve Fanfest to harrass a suicidally depressed player.
Has any artist had such a lasting death-grip on modern pop-cultural representation as HR Giger? Ever since his oozily xenobiological designs were made rubber-and-gunk flesh in Ridley Scott’s Alien, his zany vagina-dentata vision has been the biggest game in town when it comes to visualising extraterrestrial life. Random recombination of images from Scott’s film was the limit of the creativity on show in the Daniel Craig sci-fi western, Cowboys & Aliens, whose icky invaders feature a second pair of hands that emerge from a set of meaty chest flaps.
Kellee Santiago is leaving Flower and Journey developer Thatgamecompany, the studio she co-founded in 2006 with Jenova Chen.
Santiago confirmed her departure to Gamasutra, explaining that she leaves on good terms with her colleagues but felt it was time to take on a new challenge.
Ailing UK retailer Game Group could exit administration before the week is out, according to reports.
Sources close to negotiations have told MCV that a deal is "incredibly close" and the retailer could be saved as early as tomorrow. Despite reported interest from private equity firm OpCapita, and US retail chain GameStop, it appears that a consortium led by Royal Bank Of Scotland is closest to sealing a deal to save the company.
The upcoming SimCity reboot will require a constant internet connection to play, developer Maxis has confirmed.
Lead designer Stone Librande confirmed to Joystiq that, while the game will be available to purchase from a number of digital distribution platforms, players will need to be constantly connected to EA's Origin service to play the game.
Long-awaited XBLA platformer Fez will finally be released on Friday, April 13 for 800 Microsoft Points, developer Polytron has confirmed.
It means Phil Fish's 2D/3D game will launch almost five years after it was first announced, and two years after its original target release date of early 2010. This is the second confirmed Friday release for an Xbox Live Arcade title, following South Park: Tenorman's Revenge, which launches this week.
Sony will have a new console, dubbed Orbis, on shelves before the end of next year, according to reports.
The claim comes from Kotaku, who has been told by what it describes as "a reliable source who has shared correct information with us before" that the console will be released in time for the 2013 holiday season.
The console will not be backwards compatible with PS3 titles, and will block used games - a feature Microsoft is also reportedly considering for its Xbox 360 successor.
Kid Icarus: Uprising is the new Japanese all-formats number one, Masahiro Sakurai's 3DS debut selling 132,526 copies in its first week on shelves.
In second place is Yakuza Black Panther 2, Sega's PSP game selling just under 105,000. There are three further new entries in the top ten: Capcom's Devil May Cry HD Collection at number four, ahead of Ninja Gaiden 3 at number five and PS3 RPG Attouteki Yuugi: Mugen Souls in sixth.
Akira Yamaoka, composer of music for the Silent Hill series and sound director on XBLA shooter Sine Mora, admits that the Japanese videogame industry is "struggling" to create games that appeal to gamers worldwide.
Our May issue, which goes on sale April 11, features reviews, along with Post Script articles, on all the biggest games including Trials Evolution, Ridge Racer Unbounded and Ninja Gaiden 3.
Speaking today at the F2P Summit in London, NaturalMotion Games’ Struan Robertson discussed the lessons the studio had learned about mobile development from the success of its iOS hit My Horse. Having made console-quality ‘premium’ games like Backbreaker, it saw an opportunity in free-to-play and launched its equine title in September 2011. It's been an unqualified, and unusual, success: has been downloaded eight million times, has 500,000 daily average users, and boasts a 65-35 female-male split.
Tak Hirai, lead programmer on Dreamcast classic Shenmue, is working on a rhythm action game for PS Vita.
Andriasang brings word from this week's Famitsu that Hirai - who also worked on Space Channel 5 and Meteos - is targeting a summer launch for Orgarhythm, the first release from Neilo, the studio he founded in 2010.
Bit Pilot is an anomaly in conceptual artist Zach Gage’s ever-widening iOS portfolio, being reliant on comparatively traditional mechanics, albeit expressed in a less orthodox manner. Ostensibly a touchscreen take on arcade standard Asteroids, Gage’s latest is distinctive not by virtue of its systems or its appealingly rudimentary 8-bit aesthetic, but by its control scheme.
The next stage in the evolution of free-to-play is successfully monetising the singleplayer game, according to Ngmoco's Ben Cousins, who believes there will be a free-to-play experience comparable to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim within the next few years.
Adobe has announced an official partnership with Unity Technologies that will see the two firms cooperate to help developers target the Flash platform.
Our May issue, which goes on sale April 11, features reviews, along with Post Script articles, on all the biggest games including Trials Evolution, Ridge Racer Unbounded and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.
Wasteland creator Brian Fargo has hit out at the influence publishers wield over the development process, describing the way creators are treated as "abysmal."
Angry Birds Space initially sounds like an irritating prospect. That’s just standard Angry Birds with the gravity slider moved around a bit, right? In reality, however, Rovio’s latest is an evolution that feels considerably more ambitious than previous updates. The cast of characters has been redesigned in fine Duck Dodgers style, a handful of new bird tricks exist, and the game’s explosive playgrounds have been extensively riddled with all manner of parabola-warping gimmickry.