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Valve has invited in 5,000 additional participants for the Linux for Steam beta test. The company explained things have progressed to the point where it’s ready to bring in a larger number of testers. We’re making good progress finding and fixing issues that our users have reported so we’re expanding …

Wim ter Schüren to be responsible for over 60 developers and expanding company's mobile games portfolio

Yes, it’s actually happened. ESPN reports that 21 year-old Vugar Huseynzade has successfully landed himself a job as the manager of Azerbaijan football outfit FK Baku’s reserves. Huseynzade, who was born in Azerbaijan and has studied in universities in Sweden and the US, was hired back in February in an …

The UK’s leading games retailer GAME has announced a new partnership with IGN. The news was announced by Game Retail boss Martyn Gibbs at the retailer’s quarterly supplier conference today. The deal will see the pair work together on in-store promotional events and extensive GAME advertising across IGN’s network, that …

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FM 2013 is Sports Interactive’s most ambitious game yet. And if it can stay piracy-free for a few weeks, next year’s title will be even greater. MCV discusses the game’s future with studio boss Miles Jacobson. You’ve introduced a cut-down ‘classic mode’ to this year’s Football Manager. Why do that? …

There was plenty to learn at last night’s London Games Conference, and MCV is at hand to make sure you don’t miss a beat. 300 people were in the room for the sold-out event which included talks and presentations form some of the industry’s leading figures. Here’s a roundup of …

The publisher of upcoming free-to-play game Hawken has vowed never to spend any money on advertising. Instead, the firm is splashing out on movies, novels, a web series, graphic novels and other ‘transmedia’ products to generate hype for its new first person shooter. That was the subject of Mark Long’s …

A total of 24 games from 11 different publishers will be available alongside Nintendo’s Wii U when it’s released in the UK on November 30th. Here’s the full list of games: * Funky Barn (505 Games)* Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Skylanders Giants, Transformers Prime (Activision)* Epic Mickey 2: …

Mobile gaming firm had planned to give developers a year to migrate, claims marketing SVP