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Yesterdayour sister site Develop launched the latest edition of its widely-read Develop 100, a ranking of the best studios in the world. Over the coming weeks Develop will be publishing extracts and highlight data from the book, which uses GfK Chart-Track research on retail sales to formulate a ranking based …
Read More »Read our guide to UK games retail in this week’s MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features our four page guide to UK games retail’s top buyers. We also interview EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson and football legend Gianluca Vialli. The magazine is available for iPad. Download our app now, which includes access to the …
Read More »‘Full’ Moshi Monsters iPad app coming soon
Mind Candy believes that tablets are the future of gaming – and it wants to make the most of it by brining a ‘full’ Moshi Monsters app to iPad. With over 60m registered users, the desktop version has already been joined by some spin-off iOS apps, as well as DS …
Read More »UK games store count plummets
There are 300 fewer games specialists on the High Street in 2012. MCV?research has shown the combined number of GAME, HMV and Blockbuster outlets has plummeted from 1,465 to just 1,144. GAME took the biggest hit, with hundreds of branches closed when the chain went into administration in March. Conversely, …
Read More »2K crosses Borders for Gamescom road trip
Journalists, don’t book that flight to Gamescom just yet! 2K wants to take you for free. On their bus. The Borderlands 2 bus will take press from London to Cologne, leaving early August 14th and returning on August 18th. All you have to do is email matt.roche@2K.com to secure you …
Read More »New sources back iPad Mini predictions
Further to similar predictions earlier this week, two major US sources have also reported that Apple will unveil an iPad Mini before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that Asian component suppliers are readying for mass production of the device this September. It concurs of reports …
Read More »Documents hint at redesigned, slimmer PS3
Documents filed by the US regulatory body FCC (Federal Communications Commission) suggest that a super slim PS3 console is on the horizon. Spotted by Japanese website Pocket News, the documents talk about the PS3 4000 series. The current PS3 3000 series was released in 2009 and is a slimmer version …
Read More »VIDEO: Metroplex heeds the call of the Last Prime; Release date change
Transforming Autobot city Metroplex is the star of the latest short for Activision’s upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. In it we see the bedraggled Autobot leader Optimus Prime is seen summoning a voice he has heard through the Matrix of Leadership. The voice belongs to Metroplex, who is heard to …
Read More »Google and Twitter confirm LGC keynotes
Two of the biggest forces in media will deliver keynotes at the November 21st London Games Conference. Google and Twitter will take to the stage at the only event which brings together executives from the games industry, across the disciplines of marketing, sales and media. The title of the 2012 …
Read More »Terrifying horror game Slender available for free
Is it the scariest game ever made? Early commentators seem to think so. Slender is based on a character that emerged from a Something Awful thread that challenged users to create paranormal images. The thin, stretchy antagonist went on to become online meme. Now the beta of Parsec Productions’ spin-off …
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