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Yesterdayour sister site Develop launched the latest edition of its widely-read Develop 100, a ranking of the best studios in the world. Over the coming weeks Develop will be publishing extracts and highlight data from the book, which uses GfK Chart-Track research on retail sales to formulate a ranking based …

Enlighten, Kinect Sports: Season 2, Monstermind, MotorStorm RC, My Horse, Circus Challenge, Team Hotwheels Apptivity do battle

The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features our four page guide to UK games retail’s top buyers. We also interview EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson and football legend Gianluca Vialli. The magazine is available for iPad. Download our app now, which includes access to the …

Mind Candy believes that tablets are the future of gaming – and it wants to make the most of it by brining a ‘full’ Moshi Monsters app to iPad. With over 60m registered users, the desktop version has already been joined by some spin-off iOS apps, as well as DS …

LEGO games developer trumps UK rivals - We examine why

There are 300 fewer games specialists on the High Street in 2012. MCV?research has shown the combined number of GAME, HMV and Blockbuster outlets has plummeted from 1,465 to just 1,144. GAME took the biggest hit, with hundreds of branches closed when the chain went into administration in March. Conversely, …

Journalists, don’t book that flight to Gamescom just yet! 2K wants to take you for free. On their bus. The Borderlands 2 bus will take press from London to Cologne, leaving early August 14th and returning on August 18th. All you have to do is email matt.roche@2K.com to secure you …

Bjorn Book-Larsson to become CEO

Having completed a round of financing, MMO developer Reloaded Games is in the process of completing a merger with MMO publisher K2. K2 specialises in bringing titles that have enjoyed success in Asia to the Western market. It runs publishing portal GamersFirst.com. It also owns the trademark for the term …

Further to similar predictions earlier this week, two major US sources have also reported that Apple will unveil an iPad Mini before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that Asian component suppliers are readying for mass production of the device this September. It concurs of reports …