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Former Ogre Battle and Final Fantasy dev to take break from development

Shares in tech giant Apple have slid 20 per cent since the launch of the iPhone 5 in September. That represents a loss in value of over 80bn, with shares reaching a five-month low during yesterday’s trading. It is currently worth in the region of $530bn. Apple’s share price hit …

Judges impressed by students' output on genetics-themed games

Mists of Pandaria expansion helps halt decline with 2.7 million copies sold in first week

This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it features an analysis of the new Call of Duty and its bid to beat Halo and Skyfall to become the biggest entertainment launch of the year. We also reveal the new-look MCV Awards and speak to EA’s free-to-play boss …

Ten million sales of Diablo III and strong Skylanders performance raises full-year expectations to nearly £3bn

Square Enix and E-xpress Interactive hosted a preview even for Hitman: Absolution in Mumbai last night. Present at the event was Square Enix’s export marketing manager Anthony Newall, who presented a gameplay demo from Absolution as well as a brief gameplay snippet from Tomb Raider. Demos aside, Newall also presented …

Users can now also register non-Origin games to digital distribution platform

UK supermarket chain Asda has come in for criticism over its Christmas TV campaign. Running under the slogan ‘Behind every great Christmas, there’s Mum’, the short sees a mother seemingly struggling alone to prepare the Christmas Day festivities as the rest of the family wait on. Both women’s and men’s …

UKIE CEO Jo Twist looks at the funding options available to start-ups