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King: feed your community or risk losing it
09:13 - 4mm Games boss lining up constant DLC for Def Jam Rapstar; confident game can breathe life into "stale" music genre
Xbox 360 on "downside of its lifecycle"
09:37 - DFC Intelligence queries Microsoft's approach to hardware, software and Kinect
THQ: developer-owned IP is "a deal-breaker"
11:52 - Publisher hints at two forthcoming announcements involving "jaw-dropping talent"
Today's feature
4mm Games' Jamie King
The Def Jam Rapstar maker on how a passionate community can inject life back into the stale music genre
The rest of today's news
Blizzard ponders free-to-play World of Warcraft
08:40 - Developer gives free access to StarCraft II via World of Warcraft subs in Korea
Wigmore steps up as Euro publishing boss for Codemasters
13:55 - UK general manager promoted ahead of new releases
Image Metrics acquires facial animation firm Character-FX
10:47 - Animation expert John Riggs appointed to director of avatar development department
Bill Roper to keynote GDC China
10:19 - Cryptic Studios exec and ex-Blizzard veteran to appear at Shanghai conference
Microsoft targets 5m Fable III sales, profits of $150m
11:50 - Molyneux calls demos "crazy" and reveals plans for episodic and social content
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