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Maxis is returning to the franchise that made it famous with the upcoming SimCity, the first full game in the series for ten years. The label’s general manager Lucy Bradshaw tells MCV why SimCity is still an industry heavyweight 23 years after it first appeared. Maxis as a video games …

Studio brings in senior game designer Anthony Beels to head up new project

This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it boasts our huge review of the year where we discuss the seven games that defined 2012. We also analyse the November sales data, pick the 25 Gadgets to stock this Christmas and reveal the full state of the UK …

Just 13 games boxed Wii U games are currently scheduled for release in the first half of 2013. The highlights begin with tomorrow’s release of Ninja Gaiden 3 although owners will have to wait until the spring to get their hands on the next high-profile first party release, Pikmin 3. …

Global Game Jam is the largest game jam in the world, set to take place over a period of 48 hours in 160 cities simultaneously. In India, the NASSCOM Gaming Forum is helping bring the Global Game Jam to Bangalore and Gurgaon. The Game Jam will take place from 25th …

2012 was a fantastic year for crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, and video games have emerged as the big winner. A total of 18,000 projects were backed by 2.2m contributors in 2012, with video games winning the largest slice of pledges totalling $83m of the $320m total from 561,000 backers across 2,796 …

Cambridge studio brings in new hires to work on Transformers Universe MMO

With uncertainty abounding about the viability of the next-gen market, Microsoft has demoed some tech that could create huge excitement for the future of the Xbox brand. The company took to CES to demo a new technology offer called IllumiRoom – quite possibly related to Microsoft’s Environmental Display patent unearthed …

The glamour of web fads and video gaming is being put ahead of tangible technology that can be exported from the UK, Sir James Dyson has said. Speaking to theRadio Times, the British entrepreneur famous for inventing the Dyson vacuum cleaner said too much emphasis was being placed on sectors …

The UK’s leading retailer Tesco has reported its strongest Christmas in the UK for three years. Like-for-like sales were up 1.8 per cent in the six weeks ending January 5th. Online food sales were the star, climbing 18 per cent. It’s a fantastic turnaround for the supermarket, having reported a …