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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

Deep Silver has signed a deal with new Stockholm-based studio Isbit Games to publish its next two mobile games. The publisher will provide funds for the development of the titles, and the two companies will share revenue from initial sales, in-app purchases and sales of ad placements. Support and marketing …

Peter Molyneux’s Godus may never grow to be the game that was promised when it launched on Kickstarter. As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, designer Konrad Naszynski has in a series of posts on the Godus message boards expressed his frustration – and indeed, his cautious optimism – about what …

Not many people can boast that their career involves a rock star and an interplanetary traveller – but Tamsin Nunley can. I’d been working at aridiculouslytiny animation outfit in London. Basically, it was two of us in a cupboard off Tottenham Court Road,” Nunley recounts. Bizarrely, the other person was …

Titanfall 2 looks more likely than ever to be heading to PS4. "Last year it was on the Xbox only; in the future, we haven’t yet announced, but we’ll probably have another Titanfall game,” EA CFO Blake Jorgensen told the 2015 Technology, Internet & Media Conference, as reported by GameSpot. …

There’s no doubt that video games talent runs in the Woolley family – both Charlotte and her twin sister Catherine made it into the Top 100 Women in Games. For Charlotte, her career as a passionate tester began just under five years ago at Testology. As she puts it: My …

An early look at Microsoft’s DirectX 12 graphics API has shown that AMD graphics cards – and potentially Xbox One – could be in line for a significant performance boost. An analysis over at Anandtech shows that AMD’s flagship R9 290X GPU enjoyed a near 600 per cent boost from …