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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 …

Do you want the good or the bad news? Ok, the good then. Remember the rumours last month that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 700 series graphics cards wouldn’t be released until 2014? Well, it looks now like they may have been incorrect. And quite wildly incorrect too. Word on the street …

Piracy, particularly over the Internet, has continued to grow in India over the past year, a new report by the US government has stated, albeit without any reference to gaming. India has once again made it onto the US government’s priority watch list for its lack of protection of intellectual …