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Assassin’s Creed is the latest video game franchise to receive the Mega Bloks treatment. Mega Brands and Ubisoft today announced the partnership to introduce a line of Assassin’s Creed construction sets, which will launch in autumn this year. It will join the existing range of Mega Bloks products based on …

Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has confirmed that it was last week the victim of a hack that compromised some user data. The breach occurred last Wednesday (February 12th) and saw hackers gain unauthorised access to some customer data including usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords. Fortunately, no …

NewBay Media Europe announces replacement for Develop founder Stuart Dinsey

Intent Media has revealed that Mark Burton is its new MD as of today (February 17th). Burton joins from Incisive Media’s Insurance Group where he worked as group publishing director. Former employers include VNU Business Media. Mark is an accomplished media executive with an impressive track record,” NewBay Media CEO …

FIFA 14 has been knocked off the top of the UK charts by The LEGO Movie Videogame. Warner’s licensed outing is the sixth LEGO game to reach the UK top spot, with the last being LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes last year. Chart-Track adds that one eighth of the …

Yet another high-profile multi-platform release has been confirmed as running at a higher resolution on Sony’s next-gen console. Konami confirmed as part of a screenshot comparison that while the PS4 version of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes runs at 1080p, the Xbox One release only manages 720p, the same as …

Games retailer Game4u has expanded the operations of its digital distribution service – downloads4u – to Singapore and Malaysia. Through the service, Game4u will make its digital catalogue of over 700 PC and Mac games available to the two South-East Asian markets. PC gaming is popular in South-East Asia and …

Mech Mocha co-founder Arpita Kapoor has received the Most Prominent Female Indie award at Casual Connect Europe’ Indie Prize. The award caps off an eventful week for the indie start-up, which also announced its latest round of funding, and its acceptance into the Chartboost Universitymentorship program. Mech Mocha recently concluded …

Manchester CGI agency saw ‘huge surge in interest’ from game companies after its F1 campaign

We take a look at five key vacancies at studios across the UK