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Precursor Games founding member and former Silicon Knights director Ken McCulloch has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of involvement with child pornography. Polygon reports McCulloch was arrested by the Niagara Regional Police earlier this week, after detectives executed a search warrant at his home in St. Catharines, Ontario. …

Continuing the recent streak of Minecraft sales figure news, 4J Studios has announced that Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition has moved past 7m sales. The unbelivably successful indie game’s Xbox 360 developer took to Twitter to announce the latest milestone. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has now sold over 7 MILLION copies …

We take a look at over a quintet of vacancies across the UK and Germany

Average Xbox 360 game sells 250,000 copies when released alongside demo

Codemasters revived popular racing series Colin McRae for iOS this week, but the publisher says this is only the beginning. The firm is developing four more titles for smartphones and tablets, which kicks off a "pretty full" roadmap of mobile games for the next two years, according to VG247. VP …

Epic CEO to discuss how the Unreal Engine company has remained a successful business for the last 22 years

New research suggests that releasing a demo before a game is released with actually damage potential sales, potentially halving the number of copies it will shift. This was revealed by game designer Jesse Schell during the recent Gamelab conference in Barcelona, according to CVG. Schell based his claims on new …

Xbox hates retail, right? Before last week’s U-turn, Xbox One was going to destroy the pre-owned market, cripple retail’s one profit-making area, and accelerate the move into digital. It was going to kill GAME and GameStop. MCV has never bought into this argument. For starters, Microsoft has a 429 console …

Ubisoft pleased with performance of standalone digital title

David Kozlowski to oversee development of unannounced mobile game