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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

The Office of Fair Trading this morning announced that it is to investigate in app purchase strategies employed by video games publishers. The move is a result of concerns that some customers – primarily children – are unwittingly spending sizable sums on content in games which, when they are initially …

Forgive me for opening with an ‘As a parent’ introduction. But as a parent, I know all to well the perils and concerns about children and content found on screens and online. My son, not even three yet, knows his way around an iPad. There are some games on there …

Namco Bandai’s free-to-play spin off for the Tekken series has been downloaded for smartphones and tablets more than 1m times. Tekken Card Tournament was released on iOS and Android last week and passed the 1m milestone after just four days on release. It is also available to play in web …

There's just a few days - and a few tickets - left until the F2P Summit. We take a look at the highlights

Ridge Racer is going free-to-play. The follow-up to last year’s Ridge Racer: Unbounded is going the micro-transactions route, allowing players to get into the action for free, with the option (or compulsion) of paying for cars, boosters, repairs, etc. "At Namco Bandai Games, we are committed to embracing new business …