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One of the leading social and smartphone games publishers has signed up to sponsor Novembers’ London Games Conference 2012. 6waves, responsible for popular titles like Astro Garden, Mystery Manor and Township has is Gold Partner of the event. LGC 2012 takes place on Wednesday, November 21st in central London, and …
Read More »Minecraft XBLA surpasses 3m downloads
Game sales for indie smash-hit on all platforms fly past 10m
Read More »Tottenham Hotspur agrees EA FIFA partnership
EA has struck a three-year deal with North London club Tottenham Hotspur that will see the FIFA series become the club’s Official Video Game Partner. Spurs becomes the eighth Premier League club to reach such an agreement after Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Newcastle, Manchester City and arch-rival Arsenal. Part …
Read More »Iwata dismisses the importance of being first to market
Wii U will be the first next-console to market, but Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata has dismissed the idea that it gives the machine a competitive advantage. "Being first in the next generation race is not important at all," he told Gamasutra. "One of the reasons we believe this is the …
Read More »PQube signs World Rally Championship 3
The Next World Rally Championship game will be published in the UK by PQube this October. The company says it will be the biggest sports title it has released, surpassing the launch of motorbike racers MUD and SBK Generations in May and June respectively. WRC3 will be released for Xbox …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Duncan leaves Sony, top jobs
In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, marketing director Alan Duncan leaves SCE UK and we look at the best job vacancies. Marketing director leaves Sony Alan Duncan has left SCE UK after almost 13 years at PlayStation UK. He began his career in the …
Read More »EA research said Dead Space 1&2 were too scary
The realisation that horror games Dead Space and Dead Space 2 are scary led to the decision to shift the focus away from scares in Dead Space 3, EA has told MCV. Fans of the series took to the internet following the reveal of Dead Space 3 to bemoan its …
Read More »Torchlight clone pulled from App Store
Chinese developer loses fight to keep fantasy title on iOS
Read More »GMA Hall of Fame: Keza MacDonald
As we head towards this year’s Games Media Awards on Thursday October 18th, we look back at previous winners to find out what winning meant to them, what advice they’d give to rookie games journalist, the best press trips they’ve attended and more. To kick it off this year, we …
Read More »Final Fantasy Versus XIII has been canned – report
Six years after it was first announced, rumours are rife that Square Enix has cancelled Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Kotaku claims to have word of the cancellation from several sources”, saying it was announced internally within the last few weeks. In the weeks leading up to the decision Square is …
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