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Mojang has announced the return of its Minecraft fan convention MineCon for 2015, and London will play host. The recently acquired Microsoft studio reveals the event will take place July 4th and 5that the ExCeL London Exhibition and Conference Centre,with 10,000 tickets going on sale later this month in two …

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The director of Indigo Pearl tells MCV about working her way up the games career ladder Tell us about your career in games. How did you get started? I got started on the very bottom rung of the ladder – in fact, I’d even say that the floor under the …

Those wanting to get involved with Koei Tecmo’s upcoming Dead or Alive 5: Last Round are going to have a number of options – some of which depend on the console they own. First and foremost, while the game will launch both physically and digitally on PS4 and Xbox One …

More than one million daily active users are playing new Finnish studio Seriously’s debut mobile game Best Fiends. The free-to-play match-three title was released in October and has since been downloaded over seven million times. Each day players are said to rack up more than 400,000 hours of gameplay. The …

The next game to star Sonic the Hedgehog will be a smartphone title named Sonic Runners. Polygon reports that the 2D side-scrolling runner will feature stages that can be completed in a minute or two, with emphasis placed on one-handed gameplay. Sonic will in the game move forward automatically, with …

Indiegama's Tom Spencer-Smith talks us through the development of his upcoming action-strategy game Army 21

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Michelle Turner left Bournemouth University in 2008 with a degree in Public Relations and started her career in the European head office of The Walt Disney Company handling projects such as High School Musical and Pirates of the Caribbean. She moved to the North-West and worked in various PR and …

Former CEO and founder of Monolith ProductionsJason Hall has saidhe’s looking for an indie developer to make Condemned 3. Polygonreports that Hall is "consistently asked when a third [Condemned] game might be created", with the last entry released back in 2008. Monolith has just finished work on the widely acclaimed …