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With piracy rife in the Wii, Xbox 360, DS and PSP markets, the PS3 has to date proved the only current-gen machine to successfully fend off the hackers – but it seems that things could be about to change. According to reports on Maxconsole, a lengthy and convoluted workaround has …
Read More »Jagexâ??s canned Mechscape â??wonâ??t go to wasteâ??
Game engine and assets will not go to waste with Jagexâ??s next project, CEO confirms
Read More »Andrew Brown asks…
Find out what happened when Activision’s Andrew Brown quizzed Microsoft’s Neil Thompson, Sony’s Ray Maguire and Nintendo’s David Yarnton… What are your thoughts on when you expect sales of digitally distributed games to overtake those of boxed product on your format? Neil Thompson, Senior Regional Director, Northern Europe, Entertainment & …
Read More »New CVG team takes shape
Media company Future has confirmed its new management lineup at multiformat games website CVG with former MCV online editor and associate editor Tim Ingham taking charge as editor. As part of the reshuffle John Houlihan becomes CVG’s first ever editor-in-chief. He has been working as Future’s web manager for gaming …
Read More »Scotland fights on for game tax cuts
Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop slams Labourâ??s pre-budget â??tax snubâ??
Read More »MW2 raises £250k for War Child
Publisher Activision will, as previously pledged, donate 250k to charity War Child following the success of its Game for Good event in conjunction with Game and Microsoft early last month. In total 1,019,088 gamers logged into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer mode on Xbox Live between Saturday December …
Read More »Ubisoft India marks nationâ??s first DS game
Ubisoft Pune finishes first full title, with the firm at concept stage for next
Read More »EA to shut down old game servers
Publisher EA is to power down a host of servers used to run the multiplayer component of a number of last-gen and some early next-gen titles, it has revealed. Titles in line to see their strings cut include Facebreaker, Fight Night Round 3, NASCAR 09, Burnout Revenge, FIFA 07, Tiger …
Read More »Games industry salary survey returns
Next weeks’s issue of MCV is dedicated to the job market in 2010, and as part of this comprehensive guide we’re running our annual salary survey – and we’re asking readers to offer feedback all throughout this week. The survey is open to anyone in the games industry, whether you …
Read More »Games of the Decade Staff Picks
Metacritic, Famitsu, Edge – any of these outlets will happily tell you which titles, by their own criteria, have been the most important of the last decade. But in these situations surely the world’s only weekly trade magazine for the video games industry must be seen as the only authority …
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