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Lauren Orrells, Daniel Hitchen and Pawel Margacz join Portsmouth studio

Lobbying deadline for UK and European studios is tomorrow at 5pm GMT

Many UK and American players were left unable to log into Xbox Live over the weekend. "We are still hard at work fixing the issue members are having signing in to Xbox Live,” a statement read. Rest assured we have every available resource working on fixing the problem." It also …

Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling products chart for the week ending on April 13th. Strategy update Age of Empires II HD takes the top spot, beating out a rare tie for the runner-up spot with a heavily discounted Dishonored sharing space with Bioshock Infinite. The Walking Dead rises again …

EA has cut a number of staff at its customer service branch in Galway. Ireland-based trade outlet The Journal reports on the redundancies, adding that they take place just seven months after the firm announced it would create 300 new positions in the country. When asked for a statement, EA …

The retail launch for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has been pushed back to June. Major Nelson revealed on Twitter that the US release date had been moved from April 30th to June 4th – in effort to match the current downloadable equivalent’s latest version. FYI: In order to include the …

In MCV’s weekly roundup of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Asda hires a new games boss and we look at the best vacancies. AMAZON HIRES ASDA’S LOCKEAsda Direct’s trading director Frazer Locke has joined Amazon as its new head of games. Locke’s role at Asda is now …

Atari shuts down French developer after 15 years

Former Lionhead developer now a core member of Marmalade Game Studio

This week we look over a quintet of vacancies in top positions across the UK