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The Next World Rally Championship game will be published in the UK by PQube this October. The company says it will be the biggest sports title it has released, surpassing the launch of motorbike racers MUD and SBK Generations in May and June respectively. WRC3 will be released for Xbox …

In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, marketing director Alan Duncan leaves SCE UK and we look at the best job vacancies. Marketing director leaves Sony Alan Duncan has left SCE UK after almost 13 years at PlayStation UK. He began his career in the …

Yahoo founding executive Ellen Siminoff joins audit committee with immediate effect

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The realisation that horror games Dead Space and Dead Space 2 are scary led to the decision to shift the focus away from scares in Dead Space 3, EA has told MCV. Fans of the series took to the internet following the reveal of Dead Space 3 to bemoan its …

iZotope's Scott Simon offers advice on realtime audio processing; an approach vital to Forza 4

Chinese developer loses fight to keep fantasy title on iOS

As we head towards this year’s Games Media Awards on Thursday October 18th, we look back at previous winners to find out what winning meant to them, what advice they’d give to rookie games journalist, the best press trips they’ve attended and more. To kick it off this year, we …

Six years after it was first announced, rumours are rife that Square Enix has cancelled Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Kotaku claims to have word of the cancellation from several sources”, saying it was announced internally within the last few weeks. In the weeks leading up to the decision Square is …

They say it’s software that sells a console – so news of some exclusive game content for Ouya will give the upstart a huge boost. Former Call of Duty dev Robert Bowling has announced that Ouya will be exclusive platform for episodic content relating to his upcoming next-gen title Human …