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Publisher Namco Bandai has announced it will be expanding with two new international offices, set to open in June. Namco Bandai Studios Vancouver Incorporated will develop online social games, and aims to significantly boost jobs in British Columbia’s technology sector.” The province provided ‘significant’ assistance to Namco Bandai, with government …

Microsoft creative director Adam Orth, made infamous for his recent outburst on Twitter regarding always-connected consoles, has left the company. Polygon reports two sources have confirmed the departure, with Microsoft adding that it does not comment on private personnel matters.” Orth ignited a bit of a firestorm last week when …

As things progress towards Microsoft’s eventual announcement of the next Xbox, new info has reportedly spilled out regarding cable box integration and Kinect eye movement detection. Citing sources familiar with the upcoming console, The Verge reports that the hardware functions by passing a cable box signal through HDMI. This will …

Exact nature of departure remains unclear as console giant refuses to comment

New website offers studios the chance to buy IP from aspiring devs in closed-auctions

Chloe Sagal can now afford surgery to remove shrapnel causing her life-threatening metal poisoning

Forget games – Koch Media wants to make 30m a year from the cinema. The firm began distributing movies earlier this year, and has started well with Richard Gere flick Arbitrage generating 1.5m and Red Dawn returning 1m at the box office. But this is just the start, says Koch’s …

505 Games believes its Ashes game will outperform all previous cricket titles thanks to a double helping of tournaments. The timings of this year’s Ashes means the UK publisher will be able to maintain sales momentum throughout the year as, for the first time, there will be two Ashes tournaments …

My annual trip to San Francisco for GDC last month was primarily in the service of MCV sister title Develop. The show is dominated by North American game devs and the nitty gritty of making games, not selling them. But two things occurred to me when it comes to MCV’s …

When it comes to Ouya, much of the excitement has focused on the physical box itself: a cheap 99 Android console made famous on Kickstarter. The hardware launches on June 4th, will be stocked by GAME, and will launch with hundreds of smartphone games rebuilt for TV. But the platform’s …