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Hit releases such as BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider were sadly unable to stop another month of annual decline in the US video games market. Total video games industry sales declined ten per cent year-on-year to $1.9bn, Gamasutra reports. That is of course an improvement on February’s 25 per cent …

Distributor CentreSoft won the final honour of the night at the MCV Awards: the Grand Prix. It also won the best high street distributor prize earlier in the night. The double-win comes after the firm celebrated its 30th year of trading last year. In its impressive history in the UK …

Electronic Arts won one of the top prizes at last night’s MCV Awards after ending 2012 as the No.1 publisher. The firm won the coveted Games Publisher of the Year prize, as voted for by a panel of 80 industry judges. It also claimed the important UK Sales Team prize. …

Ubisoft won the most prizes at the MCV Awards. It took home three key industry accolades and two prizes for Assassin’s Creed III at the MCV Awards. The publisher won Digital Distribution Team, Export Sales Team and Marketing Team. Meanwhile its efforts on Assassin’s Creed III won it the two …

Attendees of last night’s MCV Awards 2013 were treated to a big-screen look at EA’s impressive 60-second Battlefield 4 ad. And the good news is you can see it right here. Battlefield 4 looks to push the graphical envelope further than ever before thanks to the power of EA’s Frostbite …

Seth Sivak's studio builds fund following the release of its first mobile game

Flat Earth Games director Leigh Harris discusses the emotional roller coaster of creating a game

Battlefield studio seeks student to investigate Oculus Rift for possible Frostbite integration

Jordan Amaro leaves Nottingham office to work on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Ye olde Xbox 360 continues to defy its years. Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division – home of amongst other things its Xbox operations – saw revenues increase 56 per cent year-on-year for the three months ending March 31st, hitting $2.53bn. The numbers were credited to higher Xbox 360 platform and …