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The United Arab Emirates is one of the richest regions in the Middle East, and one that is home to a promising video games market. An avid gaming community is catered for by several specialist games retailers. The passion of this customer base can be seen at events like Metal …

Alex Wiltshire, the current editor of Future’s Edge magazine, is to leave the publication at the end of the month. The news comes from upcoming games conference Launch, which says Wiltshire is leaving to work as a freelance writer and consultant on video games for developers and institutions including the …

Nintendo’s Wii U is currently on sale for an all-time low price on the UK High Street. HMV is selling the Wii U Premium bundle including copies of both NintendoLand and Ubisoft’s ZombiU for just 199.99. That’s a 140 discount on the RRP. In-store POS confirming the price was spotted …

The famed indie developer on why the Indie Game Summit is her highlight of GDC

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

Analyst claims latest entry into the franchise took $100m to develop and $100m to market

This latest MCV–which isnow available to view online– details all of the hottest releases coming in the next few months, including The Last of Us and Remember Me. We also discuss retail’s fears for Wii U and how Nintendo plans to calm them, as well as the rise of indie …

Unity has sign a new partnership with Sony to bring its game engine to the PS4 and all other Sony PlayStation platforms. As well as supporting the home console, the deal means that developers will now be able to use Unity for the PS Vita, PlayStation Mobile and Sony’s upcoming …

Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream has admitted it was asked to depict the game’s female star holding a gun on the cover of the game. Such a depiction would betray the game’s real content, the studio felt, and as a result it rebutted the request and fortunately emerged triumphant. …

Irrational Games boss Ken Levine has rubbished reports that BioShock: Infinite cost upwards of $200m to produce. The number comes from a New York Times article which alleged that development costs reached $100m with marketing coming in at an additional $100m. This sounds far-fetched, and indeed Levine took to Twitter …