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Konami has teamed up with US firm Creative Minx Marketing to handle licensing and retail programs for next month’s Metal Gear Rising. The marketing agency will be working directly with retailers across Europe and North America to build hype around the game’s release and explore opportunities for merchandise. We are …

Square Enix and Microsoft are delighted by their success at UK retail last year. Square Enix told MCV last year that Hitman Absolution would be a Top Five game of 2012 and the firm delivered on that, with its stealth shooter reaching No.5. The firm also had the top selling …

Four former employees of AMD have had a court complaint filed against them following accusations that they slipped secret documents to their new employer Nvidia. ArsTechnica reports that AMD is alleging a violation of a no-solicitation of employees” promise with its rival, claiming that RVP of strategy development Robert Feldstein, …

New restructured division to investigate future platforms to satisfy both DS and Wii users

Deep Silver has issued an apology over the mutilated female torso sculpture included in the Dead Island Riptide: Zombie Bate Edition announced earlier today. What was supposed to be a gory twist on the marble torso statue, quickly turned into backlash fodder across the internet against the studio – due …

Disney wants in on the consumer excitement that has propelled Activision’s Skylanders to become a $500m-grossing toy-game property in the US. Disney Infinity unites a range of iconic characters as a console, mobile and online game It is "not just a single game" the firm says, with Infinity tapping into …

250 gamers are being offered the chance to get their hands on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Konami has teamed with marketing agency Come Round to offer a select few who have pre-ordered a copy of the title from ShopTo.net a place at a special Metal Gear party at which they …

March, you reckon? Well it’s funny you should say that… A report in Game Informer magazine picked up by Videogamer claims that both Sony and Microsoft intend to reveal their respective next-gen consoles in "special Apple-style press conferences near the Game Developers Conference in late March". It adds: "E3 in …

The home of James Bond movies to run courses covering areas such as game development, design and visual effects

Randy Pitchford has claimed that his studio Gearbox turned down an offer to develop a Call of Duty title. The comments come via a translation of a German language interview on KGN. Saying that the project was not for him”, Pitchford added: I couldn’t see what there was to aim …