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Rising Star Games has signed one of its biggest publishing deals to date with Beyblade Evolution. The 3DS title will be the first glimpse fans get of the revamped Beyblade: Shogun Steel TV series and toy line that are due later in the year. It also ties up loose ends …

Chi Onwurah criticises poor gender split in game industry

This latest MCV–which isnow available to view online– contains ten pages of images from this year’s MCV Awards. The winners, the parties and THAT video. We also discuss the latest video games drought hitting retail, and speak to EA about its bid to take down Call of Duty with FIFA. …

Mobile outfit valued higher than Gree and DeNA combined

But isn’t free-to-play supposed to mean the death of retail? As recently as a year ago that’s what we were being told. But GAME’s announcement of a new free-to-play platform is further evidence that retail might just find a role to play in this brave new world of digital gaming. …

Saturo Iwata has admitted that Nintendo has failed to create sufficient momentum for both 3DS and Wii U. However, the resolute exec insists that 2013 will deliver better things for both machines. In the US and in Europe we were unable to create sufficient momentum of the Nintendo 3DS system …

And networked environment to be even more central to games courses

Developer Spark Unlimited has come in for criticism from the publisher that employed it to make Lost Planet 3. Spark was named as the game’s developer a year ago – a surprise to many seeing as two of its recent titles, Legendary: The Box and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, …

Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central Chi Onwurah has asked Parliament to address the lack of females employed in UK games development. The call to action was made last night in a discussion about low-level female employment in the tech sector ahead of today’s International Girls in ICT Day. …

Unreleased titles such as Insomniac's Fuse will not be affected by closure, claim multiple sources