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Industry veteran Jim Mackonochie has passed away after a battle with liver cancer. Mackonochie was a pivotal figure in the flight simulation industry and despite being heavily in demand from a number of aviation-related industries never strayed far from video games, such was his passion for the genre. He had …

Today’s release of Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut brings with it word of a very well deserved accomplishment for publisher Rising Star Games. The game, a PS3 re-release of Xbox 360’s cult 2010 horror release with additional content, has become Rising Star’s most pre-ordered game ever, MCV can reveal. In …

Curve Studios has announced the new name for its upcoming PlayStation release of Stealth Bastard. Curve Studios’s lead designer Sam Robinson admitted earlier this month that the studio would be looking to change the game’s (admittedly awesome) name for its console debut. We’d like to present our fans with an …

THQ went to the grave with creditors chasing over $200m in unpaid debts. Polygon reports that claims to the bankruptcy court steam from as little as $2.98 from a US tax assessor all the way up to $39m the UK firm THQ Holdings. Other claimants include $213,772 from Microsoft relating …

Jamie Stowe takes up role of technical designer on Kickstarter-funded title Godus

Codemasters has splashed the cash on its Grid 2 marketing campaign. The upcoming racer is getting a bumper six-week online ad push, TV advertising with Virgin TV, and activity targeting tablet and smartphone users. The publisher has also teamed up with 300 Esso garages, as part of a ‘text-to-win’ Rockstar …

That long wait for GTA V is going to seem quite painful. While it’s worth paying some lip service to the few tent-poles the games industry will offer up this summer – The Last of Us, Splinter Cell, and Nintendo’s 3DS range – there’s no denying that the months ahead …

This week we look at jobs in the UK from Playground Games, Jagex and Microsoft

This week in the Nordic region, retain chain Webhallen was bought, Nordic Game bought large parts of THQ’s IP and boardgames became iOS games. Norwegian electronics giant Komplett buys Swedish retail chain Webhallen. FULL STORY The Nordic Game Awards nominees have been revealed, winners to be announced at Nordic Game. …

Funding boost aims to supply 16,000 schools across the UK with subject experitse