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Epic Games has bought the remaining stake in Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment developer People Can Fly. Epic already owned a majority stake in the Polish developer, and with this move, the studio is now wholly owned by Gears of War and Unreal creator Epic. The acquisition has had …
Read More »Minecraft PC passes seven million sales
Wildly popular indie game reaches another milestone in just three months
Read More »David Perry – The life of a legend
Develop asks the famously tall industry luminary - crowned Development Legend in July - what it takes to become one of the best
Read More »GDC Europe 2012 kicks off – What to see
Fourth pan-European developer event begins ahead of Gamescom 2012
Read More »Dead End Thrills ends the games as art debate
ADD TO YOUR BOOKMARKS: Is the ‘are the games art?’ debate the most tedious in recorded human history? Perhaps. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make deadendthrills.com one of your main go-to bookmarks. Because you should. Run by freelance games journalist and former Edge writer Duncan Harris, the site documents …
Read More »Grid 2 Codemasters’ most expensive development
Grid 2, the sequel to one of the best racing games of this generation, is Codemasters’ most expensive development yet, the publisher has revealed. Speaking to MCV UK, the game’s executive producer Clive Moody said, I believe it’s probably our most expensive development to date,” adding, This is a game, …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Third No.1 for London 2012
The Olympics may be over for the rest of us but not for Sega, which enjoyed a third week at the top of the charts with its London 2012 tie-in. There’s no change in the Top Four, with Mario & Sonic and Warner’s Dark Knight duo still shifting the most …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Activision’s Peter Hepworth and Michael Sportouch
Activision now claims to have not one, but two of the biggest franchises in games, serving two very different audiences. MCV asked European VP Michael Sportouch and UK & Ireland MD Peter Hepworth if Call of Duty and Skylanders can keep growing in the face of a pressured retail market …
Read More »Want to be in the cool gang? Hate on Zynga
We all have some inner rage we need to vent off from time to time. The trick is finding a safe target for your anger. And if you’re employed in the games industry at the moment there’s no safer target than Zynga. If you ask someone what they thought a …
Read More »Scotland invests over £80k in Dare to be Digital
Culture secretary wants tax breaks to propel growth of gaming start-ups
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