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Our Indie Retail Month in association with Gem continues to look at the UK’s top longest-running indies with Console Connections. Co-owner Mark Conacher tells MCV what goes into maintaining 20 years of high level customer service Truro-based Console Connections began life as small unit 20 years ago and now stocks …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog looks inside recently announced Beacon Mountain development environment

Develop chats with the former Rare developers on making the scary jump to mobile

Draw Something staff unsurprised by the 'typical corporate BS' of their employer

Skylanders is the best selling video game this year, so perhaps it was inevitable that a kids giant like Disney would try to take a cut of the market. MCV asks Skylanders business unit VP Joshua Taub and VP of marketing John Coyne what they are doing in response. And …

Activision’s former UK boss Peter Hepworth has accepted a job with the Government. He will head up a new joint venture from the Cabinet Office and Capita to promote best management practice and accredit training organisations. I am really looking forward to leading this exciting business,” Hepworth stated. One of …

The sacked former members of Zynga’s now-defunct New York office have admitted they were not surprised by yesterday’s news. Business Insider reports that several members of staff grabbed beers from the fridge as they were called to a mid-morning meeting, such was the sense of inevitability with which the studio …

Someone over on the MCV team has made a huge error and ‘accidentally’ released the digital edition of this week’s bumper sized E3 issue a day early. You can read it right now. We’re not naming names, but it was James. It’s not just any old issue. It’s our E3 …

Capcom is trying something new with the next release in the Dragon’s Dogma series. Siliconera reports that Dragon’s Dogma Quest is due out in Japan for PlayStation Vita this autumn. Interestingly, not only is the game 2D but it’s also free-to-play. The game is described as fast-paced” and contains over …

Dane Maddams gives us the low-down on his digital production house and the services it offers