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Engine outfit and developers join forces to push dev platform for the benefit of all Unity users

The next outing in the acclaimed BioShock series won’t be arriving the February as planned. Instead, the hotly anticipated Irrational Games project will hit shelves on March 26th – exactly one month later than its planned February 26th release. Irrational boss Ken Levine told the press at a recent preview …

Eurocom, the British developer behind the latest James Bond game, has gone into administration. The developer, based in Derby, made150 redundancies last monthfollowing a number of cancelled console projects. Its remaining 50 staff were told this morning that they had been laid off. Eurocom issued a statement toEurogamerthis afternoon: Today …

25-year-old studio behind James Bond titles goes into administration

UK retailers made 211.3m from video game sales last month. That’s a big number, a jump of 154 per cent over October. But unfortunately the market is still tracking behind 2011.In terms of revenue, UK physical game sales were down 22.2 per cent year-on-year last month. In terms of units, …

Mobile company cuts jobs, as it acquires developer MunkyFun

GREE is keen to conquer the UK, the leading mobile and social games firm told MCV. The Japanese publisher opened a UK studio in London earlier this year. It is working on five titles, including a Moshi Monsters game, which it hopes will help it win over UK gamers. The …

Those looking for a way to criticise the Wii U launch last week had plenty of material at their disposal. Weariness amongst parts of the specialist media and cynicism from the cutting edge online world has always cast doubt on it. It was as if some people want Nintendo to …

Nintendo has promised a steady flow of new titles and repromotions for Wii U throughout the early months of next year. The platform holder told MCV during last week’s launch of its new console it is already hard at work on plans for Q1 2013. The firm is no doubt …

Unreal technology brings realistic environments to soldier training