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Time’s up for our media assassins – now it’s your turn, retailers. MCV and Square Enix is looking for the UK games industry’s deadliest assassin with our Hitman Sniper Challenge competition. The best performers each month will win a 16Gb Wi-Fi iPad 2 and a 10" Agent 47 statue. The …

'The Government is determined to make this country the technology centre of Europe'

Studio focusing development on Doom 4

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Japanese mobile company to join Microsoft, Amazon and Konami in UK capital

George Osborne has hailed the UK’s video games legacy – and what that means for Britain’s potential as a technology hub. In official comments issued today supporting the new GREE studio in London, he said that "the Government is determined to makeBritainthe technology centre of Europe, with theLondon’sTechCityat its heart." …

The new Tech City games studio from GREE will be geared towards Western content and local social trends. In the official announcement about the new studio, which will be housed at the East End’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’ hub of digital games firms, UK GREE chief Ryotaro Shima said the plan was …

UK games retailers made 8.4m from software sales last week, the lowest since records began. The market has been teetering at this level for a few weeks now as new releases dry up. 394,688 games were sold in total for the week, with Sega’s official Olympics game the No.1 seller. …

UK chancellor George Osborne will later today announce that mobile games giant GREE will open a UK studio in London The news means the Japanese mobile giant will joint a long list of established studios in the UK capital, plus newcomers Amazon, Facebook, Konami, Xbox and YouTube – who all …

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