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SimCity designer and Jawad Ansari resolve legal conflict

The Mass Effect Trilogy will arrive on PS3 just a month later than it does on Xbox 360 and PC. The Xbox and PC SKUs will be released in Europe on November 9th. The PS3 version will subsequently be released on December 7th. Mass Effect Trilogy includes, as the name …

Want to know who the video games industry’s hottest young talents are? Look no further. MCV provides its annual guide to some of the UK’s brightest young rising stars from publishing, the media, distribution, retail and more. Tom GoldbergerAge: 28 UK Mobile PR Manager, Electronic Arts Goldberger has worked at …

Having debuted its debut UK trailer late last month, Nintendo has aired its first Wii U commercial in the US. As you might expect, the colourful short concentrates on explaining the functionality of the device and attempting to show the various gameplay options that the second controller offers. The Wii …

Fluffy Logic's CEO on interactive entertainment as positive mental stimuli

Having featured on BBC consumer rights programme Watchdog for a second time earlier this week, EA has moved to address concerns about FIFA 13’s alleged technical issues. Quite why the BBC has chosen to focus on EA’s game as opposed to any number of far buggier titles that are released …

New version of game engine released for testing

GameZen already offers over 1,000 games on Microsoft's new OS

Deal with city to bring at least 150 new jobs

We’re in Pune, where the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference gets underway in little over an hour. Kicking things off today will be an opening keynote address from Glen Schofield, CEO of Sledgehammer Games. That will be followed by a ‘State of the Industry’ panel discussion featuring Vishal Gondal (Disney UTV), …