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German trade show Gamescom has become an official Event Partner of this year’s Games Media Awards, as it continues to strengthen ties with the UK press. The Cologne expo has become a key date in the global gaming calendar and this year’s show was the biggest and most successful so …
Read More »Whats out today? w/e Friday, September 10th
CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S COMPREHENSIVE AND FULLY UPDATED RELEASE SCHEDULE. The industry’s momentum continues to build as a wave of hot new releases arrives on the High Street today. Perhaps the biggest release is Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, a brand new adventure that allows players to do whatever a spider …
Read More »PS3 Triple Pack success
GamesAid has thanked retailers for their support in making the PS3 Triple Pack a hit, with sales set to surpass 100,000. The money raised has gone straight to support Paddington Academy, which this week posted impressive exam results in the GCSEs and A-Levels. 94 per cent of students in the …
Read More »Bungieâ??s jump
Community director and longstanding Bungie employee Brian Jarrard outlines the studio's ten year plan ahead
Read More »Case Zero shatters XBLA records
Capcom has announced that Dead Rising: Case Zero has broken the record on Xbox Live for week one unit sales. The digital-only prologue to the upcoming Dead Rising 2 has seen more downloads since it launched last week than any other title posted on Microsoft’s online games service. Yesterday, Capcom …
Read More »Adobe shares rocket on Apple tool news
Flash developers edge ever closer to iOS freedom, and the city likes it
Read More »Apple lifts game App restrictions
Apple has extended an olive branch to its army of app developers by relaxing restrictions on how games are made. The mobile devices giant says it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” – on the proviso that the resulting apps do not download …
Read More »Need For Speed World tops 1m users
More than one million users are playing EA’s Need For Speed World. The online-only racer went live in late July and attracted racing fans with a new MMO-style take on the Need For Speed series. EA is celebrating the game’s accomplishment by opening its content to all players. As of …
Read More »Apple reverses dev tool lockout
The mobile devices giant will â??relax all restrictionsâ?? on dev tools to make game Apps
Read More »PopCap sees â??dot-com bustâ?? in the rise of social
â??Sense of panicâ?? from publishers trying to buy into a sector of ever-limiting space to grow, says experienced dev
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