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Sony’s Michael Denny To Keynote Develop Liverpool
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — ... both knowledge and insights, said Denny. The UK remains a beacon for the global games development industry, and the North West has been a creative hub within the UK development scene for many years. Taking place at Liverpool's Arena and Conference Centre on November 5, Develop in Liverpool is a one day event covering three tracks: Coding & Production, Art & Design, and Evolve, which will focus on new platforms, technologies and markets. More information about the event can be found here .

Developer Leaks Own Game to Pirates
The Escapist : Latest News — ... company posted the game on torrents. In an apparent effort to curtail piracy by contributing to it, RedLynx CEO, Tero Virtala, said that his company leaked a version of the motorcycle game, Trials , on the same day that the game was released. The only difference was that the leaked version did not have access to the online leaderboards, which Virtala claims is the "soul" of the game. "Piracy is here, so how can we take advantage of that?" Virtala said yesterday during a panel at Develop Liverpool . It was his hope that pirates would download the game, and then become so ...