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Activision are pitting the top 28 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare teams in Europe against each other at the end of this month in London for their share of a $10,000 prize pool, and a trip to the $1m world finals – though one team’s future is uncertain. The teams, …

Looking to buy BioShock 2 on Steam, Xbox Live or PSN? Tough. Polygon reports that 2K Games’ stylised FPS has vanished from a number of online stores, including the aforementioned. All of its expansions have gone, too. "BioShock 2 has been temporarily removed from the Steam, Xbox Live, and PlayStation …

For the first time in the vent’s history, this year’s E3 will host a press conference from Bethesda. The immediate conclusion? Fallout 4. Although of course the studio has a number of other projects on the go, including the new Doom and the console version of The Elder Scrolls Online, …

Flavia Timiani-Dean’s route into the games industry came via her language degree, which landed her a place working in the kids and educational division for the CD-I at Philips Media Interactive. From there, she moved briefly to SCEE, before spending ‘many happy years’ at Eidos working on iconic IP including …

Survey designed to investigate the impact of working with different personality types on developer health and morale

Key developers leaving Molyneux's studio as crowdfunding god game struggles to achieve vision

Amazon UK’s category leader for video games and software, Ketu Patel, has left the etailer. Patel said he will be working in a ‘different role in a different industry’. He worked for almost six years at Amazon, after joining in April 2009 as head of commercial finance (media) before becoming …

Don’t forget, this Thursday you can be one of the first to get the result of MCV’s yearly market valuation project. A handful of tickets remain for our morning briefing on Thursday, February 12th.It costs 20 +VAT to book your place at this otherwise invite-only event. You can book your …

Tara Saunders started in the games industry alongside the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, fresh from graduating with an MA in Computer Animation. She joined Sony’s London studio as a junior animator working on The Getaway. Saunders is a long-standing member of the studio and now works as …

New ‘velocity capital’ firm explains how devs can make the most of their money – before Apple or Google even release it