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Persons of the Year 2012 - Part One
Whose impact on the games industry was felt the greatest over the last 12 months? We offer our take
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12 Games That Defined 2012
The titles that represented the growth, success and future of the games business this year
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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review
Everyone's favourite phone/tablet hybrid gets a makeover. Digital Foundry tackles the biggest Android phone yet
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War in Syria: Using Games to Understand Conflict
Why Auroch Digital made a game based on a real-world war in two weeks
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BAFTA Games Question Time: Games as Big as Film?
Video: TV's Jonathan Ross argues that film tells story and creates characters better than interactive entertainment
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Star Citizen: "We'll compete with any AAA game out there"
Chris Roberts and Crytek's Carl Jones on finding the cutting edge with $7 million
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Steam sets up Community Market
Beta feature lets players buy and sell in-game items for Team Fortress 2; Valve taking 15% transaction fee
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John Smedley on PlanetSide 2 success, Facebook failure
SOE head says shooter is company's highest-grossing title, social network titles "not the kind of games I want to play or make"
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Gamers rule: Only 10% of the industry's $50 billion comes from casuals
The Game Monetization Summit offered some crucial advice from key players and discussed the secrets of whales
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BAFTA Games Question Time: Art Versus Entertainment
Video: Ross and Jacobson tackle games as art; Tom Stone tells Jedward to "go to bed"
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Fat Pebble: Zynga, creative control and claymation
How a three-man studio secured a publishing deal with Facebook's biggest games publisher
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Industrial Toys aims to "reimagine the shooter for touch"
The team led by Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian has unveiled Morning Star for iOS; we speak with president Tim Harris
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US still the gaming super power
New study shows US plays the most, on more devices, and online
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BAFTA Games Question Time: Women in Games
Video: Broadcaster Jonathan Ross on the evolution of acceptance in video game culture
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Rebellion: Windows 8 suffered tall poppy syndrome
CEO Jason Kingsley on embracing competing formats and what he looks for in a new development platform
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Wii U blitzes PS3 and 360 as the "greenest" console
Digital Foundry assesses the power consumption of Nintendo's new home console
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BAFTA Games Question Time: Free Versus Paid
Video: Jonathan Ross and Natural Motion's Torsten Reil take sides in the pay now or pay later debate
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Infinite Loop: IP, innovation and the console cycle
Publishers' aversion to new IP late in the hardware generation exposes dubious logic that could harm the AAA industry
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Roundtable: Has The Industry Grown Up?
After a year of controversies, we take a hard look at the industry's growing pains
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GameHorizon 2013 set for May 8-9
Refreshed advisory board, live streaming of sessions, curated networking
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Cut the Rope studio: We're not a one-trick pony
ZeptoLab CEO stresses that his company "cannot always be known as makers of Cut the Rope"
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Growth of Asian app sales a "major tectonic shift"
App Annie on the rise and rise of East Asian revenues, Google Play, Supercell and more
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Console to Mobile: A Return to the Frontline
Scopely's Travis Chen on one developer's reasoning for leaving the stagnant home hardware market behind to dive into a future of multiplayer on handsets
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Core Marketing: How Nintendo is Selling the Wii U in the UK
"We know the people who are buying a Wii U at launch are core Nintendo fans."
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Daglow: Consoles, big publishers not going anywhere
Industry veteran says digital revolution won't eliminate established roles, notes that many designers "give short shrift" to marketing