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A selection of PlayStation one games are now playable on Sony’s Vita handheld. The new functionality comes courtesy of the v1.80 system update. Users can either download games directly onto their portables from the PS Store or transfer them from their PS3 console. The complete list of officially compatible European …

All of September we will be offering advice and insight from recruiters, agencies and the people with the hottest jobs in the trade. MCV will be publishing a series of articles featuring advice on job hunting, career development and hiring new staff all next month. Our Jobs In Games special, …

De_Dust 2 copied and renamed Sand Storm in WebZen's Arctic Combat

The president and CEO of Japanese developer Cave has resigned his position. Ito Masahito, who will be replaced as president by chairman of the board Kenichi Takano, becomes the second high-profile executive to quit the firm this year following the departure of COO Miko Watanabe in May. It marks a …

Google expresses concern that ruling could limit consumer access to Android devices

The PC version of From Software’s Dark Souls is out now in India, the game’s Indian distributor has announced. This is the first of publisher Namco Bandai’s games to be released in India on PC in a while. While The Witcher 2 received a delayed release in India on PC, …

Further trouble at Last Guardian developer as another key employee leaves studio

Daniel Kim to relocate to South Korea to take on other duties within the company

Square Enix action title Sleeping Dogs has bucked expectations by retaining control of the UK charts this week. It makes it two weeks at No.1 in the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, despite a 15 per cent drop in sales. The biggest casualties are the two Top Ten newcomers, …

Its high-profile legal loss to Apple over the weekend could be just the beginning of the problems for Samsung. Apple has now file papers with the US courts in a bid to pull eight Samsung smartphone handsets from sale in the US, including the Galaxy Prevail and a number of …