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30 November

17:25 Fumito Ueda 'quits Sony' 2

15:53 Mobile tech won't surpass home consoles - Helgason 2

15:25 100 jobs promised as Malta embraces games

13:30 FEATURE: Come together 2

13:00 App Store Charts: Week 48

12:30 Unity: We'll support HTML5 2

10:43 Zynga metrics are 'sketchy', claims Take-Two CEO

10:13 Witcher 2 'probably pirated more than 4m times' 4

29 November

16:43 Finalists named in Game Connection dev contest

16:00 Unity 'amazed' as installs triple to 750,000

15:53 Weak Zynga stats spark market saturation fears

14:31 Keen Games receives Deloitte Fast 500 award

14:27 Kotick: Star Wars licence fee will hurt EA 1

13:44 UK recession hinges on Euro survival - Osborne

12:01 Ruffian signs 'major multiplat deal' 1

11:18 Zynga insiders condemn crunch culture 1

10:15 Another triple-A dev turns to crowdfunding

28 November

17:25 'Kinect 2 will be so accurate it can lip read' 2

15:37 Skills Review response 'a hopeful step forward' 1

15:11 Rovio 'rejected $2 billion Zynga takeover'

14:46 Bigpoint: We didn't make 2m Euros from virtual item 2

14:01 Mafia Wars 2 'loses 900,000 users since October' 1

13:14 Zynga IPO 'could trigger staff exodus' 1

12:25 McNamara signs new deal with Mad Max director

11:42 In full: UK Govt's Livingstone-Hope response

11:26 Vaizey: UK needs to invest in dev talent

10:48 Newell: Piracy a 'non issue' for Valve

10:12 Apple iTV 'to begin production for 2012 launch'

10:00 Govt plans 'an attractive computer science offering' 3

08:00 Tech giants rally for computer science in schools 1

25 November

12:54 UK charity launches iPhone app to help disabled 2

12:17 Ubisoft dev clarifies controversial piracy comments 4

11:32 Airline adds Gameloft games to in-flight iPad rentals

10:47 2012 Olympics digital imaging firm licenses CryEngine 3

09:59 Renamed 2K Australia working on Bioshock Infinite 1

09:43 Gamepad support coming to Google Chrome 1

24 November

14:44 £100k dev prototype competition launched by Tiga

13:22 Apple removes Big Fish subscription app from store

12:41 PlayStation 4 late launch 'undesirable' says Sony

12:19 Max Payne 3 dev explains Euphoria engine tweaks

11:30 Piracy could rule out Ubisoft title for PC 11

11:00 Free dev sessions at London App World

10:05 $1 billion Nexon IPO 'dated for December'

23 November

15:55 Single virtual item 'makes £1.7m in four days' 2

15:22 Apple begins game subscriptions and streaming

14:28 Independent studio Playground Games joins Tiga

14:00 Online studio launched by ex-CCP marketing chief

12:00 FEATURE: Is HTML5 where the money is? 5

11:11 Doom 3 source code released after legal troubles

11:03 Apple launches digital games chart

11:01 New Kinect hardware can read objects from 50cm

10:40 Spectrum classic Dizzy re-mastered for mobile 1

10:05 Edmondson brothers take charge at Thumbstar

22 November

18:00 GDC 2012: First trio of speakers announced

17:59 Writers offering game narrative tutorial 1

17:02 Adobe: Flash will not be supported on Android 5.0 7

15:49 Warcraft 'could lose 1m players to Old Republic' 2

14:12 'Dev bullying' alleged as Ngmoco owner is sued

13:20 Develop now available on iPad 3

12:29 Revenues soar after DC Universe turns free

12:11 Codemasters hatches plan to bring Dizzy back

11:38 Gameforge axes free-to-play game following layoffs

11:09 Castleville 'the fastest growing Zynga game'

10:32 BAFTA Game Awards 'ghettoises indies' 2

09:56 Top OnLive exec quits

21 November

15:35 Square Enix opens second Montreal studio 1

14:28 Square Enix jumps to Android

13:48 Microsoft opens $200K Kinect app contest 1

11:12 NaturalMotion's horse sim leaps 500k daily users

10:22 Nintendo to drive 3DS into casual market by E3 1

18 November

14:04 Telltale devs caught abusing Metacritic user score 3

13:39 Witcher studio turns to next-gen triple-A titles

13:10 CryEngine to power 'triple-A' MechWarrior Online

12:34 Activision vets launch digital studio

12:21 Bohemia Interactive: 97% of our games are pirated

11:06 Nintendo boss questions neutrality of iOS study 3

09:54 Zynga buys more studios in silence

17 November

17:44 Autodesk opens dev submissions for GDC expo

17:25 Sega acquires indie group Three Rings

17:12 Lawyers advise Carmack to rewrite Doom 3 code 2

15:41 Unreal Tournament 3 'looks even better on Flash' 11

14:57 Unreal Development Kit breaks past 1m installs

14:51 Zynga temp arrested on suspicion of $100k theft

13:28 Intel flaunts 'trillion calculations per second' chip

13:13 Square Enix signs landmark Unreal Engine 3 deal 1

12:02 Dev employment in New Zealand jumps 50 per cent 1

11:13 More Crytek staff quit for smartphone publisher 2

11:07 Next Will Wright game 'will digitise your life' 2

10:15 Sony studio 'ends PS3 work for next-gen project'

10:09 Next-gen titles planned for new Avalanche studio

09:46 Xbox 720 dev kits 'available by December'

16 November

17:50 Nolan North: Face and body mocap should unite 1

17:14 Papaya and Tapjoy building Android social network

15:52 Starbreeze quietly switched CEOs

15:29 Capcom backs Origin with key franchises

14:59 Starbreeze: We need to adapt for digital

14:42 Burnout Paradise goes free in EA Origin push 6

13:24 Developers sought for Birmingham Library game

12:54 Minecraft says hello on iPhone and iPad

12:00 FEATURE: Lighting up games with HTML5

11:01 MMO 'disappears from the internet' 1

10:34 Disney CEO joins Apple board

10:13 Vivendi strips off 35m Activision-Blizzard shares

15 November

17:31 Avatar Games up for business innovation award

15:51 Dev industry pays tribute as Xbox turns ten 2

15:20 Facebook offers '100 million niche audiences'

13:55 Edmondson quits Ubisoft Reflections 3

12:00 Wave of iOS games take shape at Epic Game Jam

10:24 Australia awaits last-gasp tax relief package

14 November

15:52 Skills Review response 'delayed for good reason'

15:14 Android & iOS game sales 'surpass DS & PSP' 1

14:38 Minecraft ends beta with 4m customers in tow

13:58 Speakers line up for Develop in Liverpool

13:33 Free PR advice for new Tiga members

12:27 Unity will not support 'closed' Windows Phone 7 5

11:05 Microsoft exec: Cloud tech coming to Xbox

11 November

15:39 London Games Conference - miss anything?

15:31 Games piracy 'has climbed 20% since 2006' 13

14:55 Dominant Steam accounts for 80% of Witcher 2 sales

14:15 Dates set for Edinburgh Interactive 2012

12:20 Prime Minister backs programming education reform 2

11:10 Beta begins for PlayStation Suite SDK

10:44 Facebook opens doors on preferred dev programme

10:17 Zynga boss Pincus slams stock threat allegations 1

09:45 Limbo sales fly past 1 million mark

10 November

22:53 Steam hacked - Valve customer data compromised 6

19:12 New Xbox Live user every two seconds 2

17:33 Handhelds are doomed, industry survey finds 1

17:25 'The Old Republic will be the last big MMO' 4

17:03 'Digital revolution will help, not hinder retail'

15:30 Follow London Games Conference live

13:11 Activision shares drop after Warcraft exodus 1

12:39 New ARM smartphone chip supports DirectX 11

12:06 I don't justify crunch, says Team Bondi boss 3

10:38 PopCap and Zynga lead Kindle Fire charge

10:38 McNamara: Crunch fiasco was why Team Bondi closed

10:10 UKIE to form developer group - Livingstone to lead 2

09:51 Angry Birds lands at retail

09:41 OnLive claims UK audience of 'millions'

9 November

15:44 Modern Warfare 3 cinematics built by London firm

15:39 Xcom reboot delayed following 2K Marin layoffs

15:22 Nina Cliff returns to spearhead Game Horizon

15:08 New games service launches on Sony Tablets

14:30 FEATURE: Phone a friend or ask the audience?

13:11 Dev industry in awe of new Tegra mobile tech

11:59 5-core Nvidia chip to power new smartphone era 3

11:31 Adobe 'abandons Flash' for mobile browsers 4

11:25 Digital 'will be worth $50 billion by 2016'

10:54 Another 800k quit as Warcraft exodus hastens

10:00 Adobe to axe 750 workers across US and Europe

8 November

17:53 US economic turmoil hits Canadian studios 1

15:50 Killzone 2 composer signs for Futurlab game

15:45 Nintendo 'working on Wii U support for two tablets' 7

15:28 Havok Vision Engine integrates Autodesk tech

15:01 Building a community was priority, says creator of free game Stealth Bastard

15:00 COUNTDOWN TO LGC: Last chance to book

12:28 DC Universe usage surges 1,000% after going F2P 1

11:17 Setgo primes 'platform-agnostic' analytics tool

7 November

16:25 EA Partners biz dev boss joins Funzio

16:20 Indie studio becomes BBC's new neighbour

15:29 Steam forums suspended after alleged hack

15:11 S&P puts Sony on negative credit watch

14:24 Pirate Party pestered to join game expo, then banned

13:40 Old Wii remotes may add touch-screen tech

12:48 Microsoft buyout 'brought jubilation' - Lionhead dev 2

12:03 Zynga revenues fly, but costs pull profits

11:30 COUNTDOWN TO LGC: Digital to surpass discs by 2015

11:23 Social revenues triple for Konami

10:31 Autodesk acquires AI middleware firm Grip

10:21 Warner axes 'around sixty devs' in Washington

10:16 Minecraft hits four million sales milestone 1

09:49 115 laid off as Lego game fails to monetise 6

4 November

17:28 New beta release for Kinect Windows SDK

15:54 Publishers 'no longer the UKIE majority'

15:46 Other publishers wanted us, RedLynx claims

15:33 Unity to power next Mind Candy project

15:15 PSN exclusive Joe Danger jumps to XBLA

15:04 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 04.11.11)

14:31 Alan Wake ditches retail for digital

11:29 Livingstone's Skills Review backed in Lords debate 2

10:20 [Update] Popularity surge as Sony game turns free-to-play 2

09:45 AMD to axe more than 1,000 jobs

3 November

17:33 South Korea dev Neowiz picks xaitment for game AI

15:50 Developers must embrace HTML5, says Zynga exec

15:48 Montreal devs 'too influenced by foreign firms' 1

15:08 Gameloft reports record third quarter sales of $56m 1

14:28 60% say 'Yes' to united UK games trade body 2

13:46 '100 jobs axed' at Gameforge

13:22 China 'to become biggest app market by 2013' 1

12:08 Revolution Software joins Tiga 1

11:33 Windows Phone 7 'needs Unity and UDK support' 3

11:29 CryEngine to power new snowboarding title 1

10:46 Playdemic sold back to UK amid RockYou cutbacks

10:17 'Facebook to become biggest multiplayer platform'

09:50 Social studio RockYou 'to axe 55 jobs' [Update]

2 November

17:15 Ubisoft acquires Trials developer RedLynx 1

16:23 Countdown to LGC: Now Screen Digest offers free data, too

15:19 'Half a billion downloads' for Angry Birds

14:20 Huge losses reported by Sony consumer division

13:17 Square Enix net income projections up 148 per cent

12:18 Education-matching service launched by Tiga

12:11 FEATURE: Getting the measure of your players 2

11:18 Live game dev contest heading to Gadget Show

11:15 Countdown to LGC: Apple cuts to the core

10:43 Silicon Knights lay-offs confirmed

1 November

15:19 China-based online dev announces $119mil sales

14:39 UK developer Eutechnyx gets £1.8mil gov funding

14:00 Educational apps publisher secures $5mil funding 1

12:37 The retail model is broken, says Limbo dev

12:15 Outfit7 hits 225 million Talking Friends downloads 3

11:34 Opening up Kinect SDK 'can revolutionise industries'

10:28 Uncharted 3 team claims 'brutal crunch' 1

10:00 Silicon Knights 'lays off 75 per cent of staff' 2

10:00 COUNTDOWN TO LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE: Join the industry elite

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