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The Games 5s five-a-side tournament is back on May 21st after its successful revival last year. The contest will pitch teams from publishers, developers, retailers, media and elsewhere in the games business against each other. Last year, Testology walked home with the winner’s cup–have you got what it takes to …

New titles require unique non-game related hook or hilariously weird premise to gain coverage, says Cliff Harris

Nintendo UK veteran James Honeywell was declared the Unsung Hero at this year’s MCV Awards. Honeywell has been at Nintendo for 20 years, and on the night was praised for his superb product knowledge and hard work with the company, including launching the DS and 3DS consoles. In a video …

The winner of the new Store Manager of the Year prize at this year’s MCV Awards was Games Centre Irvine’s Craig Kennedy. In a video shown on the night, staff from the Scottish retailer praised Kennedy for his store’s performance, and for his method of going directly to prospective customers …

The man described as 22Cans’ voice of reason” has left the studio to go it alone. The Guardian reports that Jack Attridge left the studio on Friday, telling the paper: Me and Peter [Molyneux] went on a big 10 mile walk and finally said our goodbyes.” Some had expected the …

Relic co-founder declines to comment on sudden departure

Gearbox Software’s Matthew Armstrong is leaving the studio. Armstrong is best known as the creator and franchise director of the firm’s wacky shooter-RPG hybrid Borderlands. He started as game design director and a writer on the first entry in the series. In comments toGame Informer, he stressed that he was …

Godus co-creator felt like “an advisor” at Molyneux’s studio and is ready to run his own projects

A fresh bout of documents obtained from the 2014 Sony Pictures hack have been released by WikiLeaks, bringing with it fresh details about Sony Pictures’ gaming movie aspirations. It had previously been reported that Sony believed it was in with a shot of securing the rights to an animated Mario …

Ten studios will get the chance to show off their game to 1,800 developers and publishers