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Sony has sent out invitations to its Playstation E3 2013 press event, confirming it will join Microsoft in showing off its wares a day ahead of the industry expo in Los Angeles. The conference takes place on June 10th at 6pm Pacific, just hours afterMicrosoft’s eventtakes place at 10am that …

Tomb Raider took the top spot on Steam’s weekly top ten selling products list, stealing it away from Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – thanks to a major discount promotion. The recently dubbed and currently discounted Star Wars 2013 Collection finished right behind the aforementioned titles, followed by StarDrive. The …

In MCV’s weekly roundup of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, the former CEO of Cryptic Studios heads up Lionhead and we look at the best vacancies. Lionhead names new studio bossJohn Needham has been named as the new studio boss at Microsoft-owned developer Lionhead. Needham previously worked …

Rogue employee uses gaming network to syphon virtual currency

The duo behind the new initiative explain exactly what their new project is

This week we look at a quintet of programming jobs across the UK

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Supersike Games’s debut effort, Yet Another Bird Game, is set for release on the App Store on 16th May. Yet Another Bird Game was a runner-up at last year’s Square Enix Game Development Contest India, and since then, the studio has been putting the finishing touches on it for an …

Experienced dev manager now handling business development at Portsmouth studio

A knife attack in Clydebank has been blamed on the offender’s access to violent video games. The games-loving Daily Mail reports that an unnamed 13-year-old (who is apparently already a father) slashed the throat of a 14-year-old friend whom he met via Gears of War 3 online. The victim reportedly …