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Marketing director Alan Duncan has left SCE UK after almost 13 years at the platform holder. Duncan began his career in the games industry at GT Interactive in 1998, but joined Sony a year later as product manager. He then moved up to marketing manager and then marketing director, a …

MMO attracts players from players form 150 countries clocking up in excess of 443bn minutes in game time

Social mobile giant spills the beans on its plans for 2012 conference

Pilotwings Resort developer takes up the last spot with £2m in UK retail revenue in 2011

Implementation dependent on gameplay and platform, says studio producer

Xbox creator headlining Edinburgh festival

CSO Nils Holger Henning joins the Reisberger brothers in exiting publisher

There are too many sequels and established IPs ruling the games market, says Dishonored and Half-Life 2 developer Viktor Antonov. Speaking to Eurogamer, Antonov (who works for Bethesda-owned studio Arkane) believes it has been a poor five years for fiction in the industry, and there was now a lack of …

'It's been a poor five years for fiction in gaming', claims Antonov

The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features interviews with Electronic Arts, UKIE and Borderlands developer Gearbox. That’s on top of the latest charts data from Chart-Track, the PlayStation Network, Steam, Apple and iOS. This week’s edition also asks what happens now PEGI is law and …