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Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: PlayStation hires Brown, top vacancies
In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Sony’s UK PlayStation team hires a new account manager and we look at the best job opportunities. BROWN TO HEAD UP SONY RETAIL ACCOUNTSHuw Brown has joined the PlayStation firm as its new national account manager. While at …
Read More »JOBS IN GAMES: How to build a portfolio for programmers
Datascope programming consultant Ben Royce offers a comprehensive guide
Read More »GamesAid voting closes Sunday
Voting for the charities that GamesAid will supprt in 2012 ends on Sunday. The UK video games industry charity has named the 14 charitable organisations in the running to receive support. GamesAid members are invited to vote for the charity they would like to see being officially supported. The focus …
Read More »Kickstarter pledges new guidelines to protect backers
Crowdfunding site 'is not a store' say founders as new rules are brought in
Read More »Ubisoft’s digital boss on free-to-play, mobile games, eSports and the new UPlay
Ubisoft showed off its download line-up at its Digital Days showcase in Paris earlier this month, and MCV caught up with worldwide director of online games Stephanie Perotti. The publisher’s digital boss shared with us the plan for the newly-relaunched UPlay downloads service, the ever-growing free-to-play sector, the promising eSports …
Read More »Gem backs Borderlands 2 with Xbox competition
2K Games’ distributor Gem is running a number of promotions in support of Borderlands 2. The firm (which has also worked on the ‘Guns, Guns, Guns’ Top Trumps pre-order campaign), is running a Facebook competition. Simply by liking the GemGroup page, you can win an Xbox 360 250GB Console and …
Read More »Angry Birds spin-off Bad Piggies coming to retail
Rovio’s new Angry Birds spin-off is coming to retail next month. A PC version of Bad Piggies will be released by Focus Multimedia, and the publisher says the game will even get free DLC in the form of extra levels – just like the game’s iOS equivalent. Bad Piggies, as …
Read More »Slender sequel will terrify you all over again
Fresh from scaring the bejesus out of the gaming world in June, Slender creator Mark Hadley has revealed he is working on a sequel – The Arrival. Slender: The Eight Pages was a free experimental PC game that gained a cult following and was extensively covered by the specialist press. …
Read More »European World of Warcraft launch event will be live streamed on YouTube
Blizzard is hosting seven major launch events across Europe for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. The festivities take place Monday evening (September 24th) in Paris, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Cologne and Stockholm. But for those that are unable to attend, Blizzard is live streaming the event over YouTube. The …
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