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As part of a press release issued today, EA has quietly confirmed that upcoming racer Shift 2: Unleashed has seen its release date slip by one week in Europe. The game will now arrive in the UK on April 1st, a day after its continental release on March 31st. Previously …

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Capcom Interactive has announced that it has not been in a dispute with Apple over Smurfs’ Village on iPhone. Previous reports on Pocket Gamer stated that Apple had strong words with Capcom because iPhone users had complained after paying for in-game items accidentally. The site has now received a statement …

Intel CEO Paul Otellini has lashed out at Nokia over its decision to side with Microsoft and adopt its Windows Phone 7 software platform in its future smartphone handsets. Otellini’s firm is likely annoyed that Nokia’s decision also meant the abandonment of plans to use Intel’s MeeGo platform in its …

Developer Level-5 has announced that more than 11.4m Professor Layton games have been shipped worldwide. This figure is formed from shipments of the four current Layton puzzle games on DS including Curious Village and The Lost Future, reports Andriasang. The news comes ahead of the Japanese release of Professor Layton …

Following claims earlier in the week that we’d seen the last of the Mirror’s Edge series, publisher EA has seemingly offered some hope to fans of the game. On Monday MCV reported that DICE boss Patrick Sodurland had claimed sales of Mirror’s Edge"were not as good as expected" and that …

The upcoming Mortal Kombat game will hit UK stores on Thursday, April 21st, Warner Bros has confirmed to MCV. The Xbox 360 and PS3 brawler was previously scheduled to arrive on ‘Mortal Monday’ – or April 18th to everyone else. US consumers will now get the game on April 19h …

Boxed product is far from dead – it’s the key to driving sales among the mass market. That’s according to Nintendo of Europe’s MD of marketing and PR Laurent Fischer, who believes the industry’s shift towards digital distribution and mobile gaming has been nowhere near as severe as some have …

Liverpool studio Bizarre Creations will close today. To mark the occasion, one individual at the company has assembled a farewell video, featuring some of the group’s most notable games. The video can be found below. Develop has written an obituary on the studio, here. Story originally published on Develop

You can now read the digital edition of this week’s MCV magazine – simply point your browser here. You can download the PDF edition or flick through the pages online. Alternatively, for iPad owners, please give our iPad edition a try by downloading it for free from iTunes. In this …