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The UK games market plunged to its lowest figure all year last month as the number of new releases slowed dramatically. Only 7.9m was made in revenue for the week ending April 26th – a fall of 34 per cent week-on-week – according to GfK Chart-Track. The biggest launches of …

Former members of now defunct PR agency Lunch have formed a new company – Lick PR. The firm is made up of team director Lucy Starvis, account manager Ian Dickson, account executive Colette Barr and MD Kat Osman. Based in Central London, the game, technology and event PR agency was …

There are many ways to measure the influence of John Bain, but recently MCV stumbled across a new one by accident. He was one of the hundred entrants in our Brit List. Bain tweeted out a link to the magazine, which instantly more than doubled our typical readership. And this …

Activision has said that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be released physically on Xbox One in the UK some time in early May. In mid April the Xbox One version of the game mysteriously disappeared from release schedules, with Activision simply saying that it was working with Microsoft in an …

Afternoon of sessions devoted to design, art, production and programming of Xbox One title

The man who was responsible for burying huge numbers of Atari 2600 cartridges in the New Mexico desert has revealed himself. ET and others games were amongst the thousands of items recently unearthed in Alamagordo as part of a Microsoft documentary. And now local news network KBOI2 has named James …

Strategy title downloaded more than 5.5 million times to date

The next Call of Duty won’t be released on Wii U, it seems. Amazon listings confirm Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC but not for Nintendo’s machine. We already knew the game will be released on November 4th. "Call of Duty: Advanced …

Facepunch Studios boss Garry Newman explains why he chose Unity to power his Early Access best-seller

Tesco has revealed that it will launch an Android smartphone by the end of the year. Philip Clarke, Tesco’s chief executive, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the handset will be called the Hudl smartphone and will come with pre-installed Tesco services and feature hardware comparable to the Galaxy S5. …