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New Epic branch working on spin-off to hit iOS franchise

Booya for Ouya, bender on Slender and minger for Zynga. Which roughly translated means that it’s been a great day for Ouya, a bad day for the MCV journalist forced to play horrific indie title Slender and really not the best 24 hours for Zynga. This is the news. Codemasters …

New Maryland-based office staffed by a number of former Big Huge Games employees

Co-founder Steve Wang to replace John De Margheriti at the helm

In the third of our four EA interviews, EA Games marketing boss Laura Miele discusses Dead Space, Need for Speed, Medal of Honor and Battlefield 3 How was E3 for EA Games?We did something interesting this year in that we waited until E3 to announce Dead Space 3, Need for …

Despite being the latest publisher to brave the wrath of the ferocious online games community, Codemasters is sticking by its guns. It was revealed yesterday that the Britsoft studio is cutting the in-car view option from freshly announced racer Grid 2. So what, you may say? Well, in-car is for …

Developer behind iOS success appearing at one-day conference

It’s just a matter of days until big German games show Gamescom – but it’s proven to be plenty of time for Sega and THQ to have a change of heart about missing the event. The two publishers, which had originally announced they would not be going to the show, …

The thing is, it’s not really Microsoft’s fault. It’s ours. Earlier this week MCV lamented Microsoft’s compulsion to lie to us all about an admission from its general manager Brian hall that the New Xbox is a ‘thing’. We lamented the necessity of lies in corporate culture. We lamented being …

State to take control of failed game studio's remaining valuables to balance its debts