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The Metropolitan Police has charged a hacker it arrested earlier this week with five offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act. As previously reported by MCV, the 19 year-old Essex teenager in question is indeed Ryan Cleary. He is accused of constructing and distributing bots designed to …
Read More »Report puts $1bn price on PopCap acquisition
Rumours suggest big-money swoop could be made by Zynga, EA or DeNA
Read More »Infinity Blade to become free-to-play in Japan
Mobile games giant Dena secures exclusivity deal with Epic
Read More »Free 180-day Music Unlimited trial
Sony is offering a free 180-day trial of its Q Music Unlimited service. It offers users the chance to sample the ad-free internet radio style experience with a library totalling 7m tracks. The deal is open to PS3 owners who haven’t previously or aren’t currently subscribed to the service. PS3 …
Read More »Sony to launch PSVita at Games Media Awards
Sony’s PSVita will sponsor this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Gamess as Gold Partner. The firm will use the event to promote its upcoming handheld to the UK’s 200+ elite games media at what has become the big night of the year for the UK’s specialist press. …
Read More »In pictures: Crysis 2’s DirectX 11 upgrade
New features include geometry tessellation and parallax occlusion mapping
Read More »Namco and Capcom – rivals, allies
Namco Bandai and Capcom may be competitors in the video games market place, but a shared need to find success out of their home country of Japan has brought the pair together. That’s according to Namco’s VP of label and brand strategy Hiro Ochiai, who was speaking to MCV about …
Read More »FIFA 12 lands on September 30th
EA has announced that FIFA 12 will be released on September 30th in the UK and Europe. It will arrive a few days earlier in the US – on September 27th. The PC version will release alongside the PS3 and Xbox 360 SKUs and EA has promised that, unlike in …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Olivier Comte
The last time MCV spoke to Namco Bandai’s European VP Olivier Comte, he said the games industry was going through its ‘first big crisis.’ His comments – made during the firm’s 2010 Level Up showcase in Barcelona – were in response to a market that was struggling to deal with …
Read More »Retail dates SWTOR for September
Online UK retailer ShopTo has given upcoming EA MMO title Star Wars: The Old Republic a September 9th release date in the UK according to a recent update. Back in january MCV learnt that EA executives were at the time anticipating a September release for the long-awaited game – much …
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