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New hires have worked with Sega, Codemasters and Eidos

Wonderbook: Book of Spells hits shelves this week, and to mark its arrival MCV has published a special trade supplement devoted to the new product. As well as details on the marketing, PR, plus retail plans, we also speak to Sony’s UK boss Fergal Gara and the Wonderbook game director …

Playground Games' Trevor Williams on building up a new studio

Consumers who use the new PS3 lv0 bootloader key to play games illegally online are being banned from PSN. Unauthorised software for the PlayStation 3 system was recently released by hackers,” a Sony statement reads. Use of such software violates the terms of the ‘System Software License Agreement for the …

Embattled publisher could face bankruptcy, according to financial break down

The narrative for this Q4 has already been written to some extent, but the industry’s big triple-A’s are looking to prove it wrong. Both the UK and US markets are significantly down year-on-year and the belief that the market has peaked and consoles are losing popularity is becoming increasingly commonplace. …

The market is in transition and the November 21st LGC will prepare you for change. Here’s our quick guide to why you should be there… 1. It will help you grow your business The focused agenda has been created to help deliver insight into the twin challenges of digital discovery …

Epic planning a more diverse market this console cycle

Epic founder says development of Samaritan demo was 'greatly worrying'

Chief accounting officer Mark Vranesh to fill post