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Read More »Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker unearths a UK release date
Wii U title Captain Toad’s: Treasure Tracker won’t arrive in the UK in time for Christmas, Nintendo has confirmed. It will instead hit these shores on January 9th, following its Japanese release on November 13th and its North American release on December 5th. The game is a spin-off from the …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet 3 delayed by a week
PS4 and PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet 3 is going to arrive slightly later than expected. The game had been due to be released in the UK on November 21st but will now launch on November 28th. We’re currently working our socks off with Sackboy and friends to get the game to …
Read More »London Games Conference: Look who’s talking
Facebook, Buzzfeed, Twitch, PlayStation, Ubisoft, IGN and more will be sharing their expertise at next month’s London Games Conference. The event will discuss the marketing challenge: driving reach, engagement and conversation. London Games Conference returns on Wednesday November 19th – with a clutch of high profile brands involved. This year’s …
Read More »Zynga launches New Words With Friends
Five years on from the release of the original, Zynga has updated one of the smartphone’s most successful properties. New Words With Friends brings with it a number of additions, chief of which is a solo-player mode for offline play that sees users squaring off against AI opponents. The game …
Read More »GMAs Journalists’ Journalist nominees: Who is Julia Hardy?
This year’s Games Media Awards on October 15th will see the games media vote on the night for their ‘Journalists’ Journalist’, from a shortlist of six industry standouts. Ahead of the big night, MCV chats to nominee Julia Hardy about the importance of treating the gaming industry with respect as …
Read More »Keywords acquires art specialist Lakshya Digital
Expanding services firm acquires India-based outsourcing company
Read More »Livingstone School will focus on ‘games-based learning’
Industry veteran Ian Livingstone wants kids to learn how to solve problems, not just pass exams
Read More »Sony targeting December launch for PS4 in China, report claims
The PS4 could launch in China in just two months, according to a new report. The machine is without an official release date in the territory but Bloomberg says that Sony plans to start packaging the console from December with the intention of selling 200,000 machines annually. Documents detailing the …
Read More »Microsoft CEO Nadella tries to calm gender pay controversy
Satya Nadella has said that he got it wrong when arguing that women shouldn’t ask for a pay rise in the tech workplace. Readwrite reports that the Microsoft CEO told an audience at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that: It’s not really about asking for a raise, …
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