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Black Bean Games’ rally racer WRC 3 will hit UK shelves this October on PC, consoles and PS Vita. It’s the latest official game of the 2012 FIA World Rally Championship and has once again been developed by Milestone. The title has a new graphics and game engine, as well …

Shareholders holding out hope that they might yet recoup the value of their losses have received some bad news this afternoon. The GAME Group has today requested its complete removal from the London Stock Exchange. "Further to the announcement of 21 March 2012 and the appointment of PWC LLP as …

Teachers need courses to learn programming skills before subject enters curriculum, say tutors

MCV Onlineattracted over half a million readers and over 2m pageviews in March, hitting core consumers as well as trade. MCVuk.com posted a record-breaking 506k unique users during the month, with pageviews also hitting a record-breaking 2m for the period,according to Google Analytics data. In short, MCVuk.com affirmed itself as …

Games industry trade body UKIE has unsurprisingly welcomed the news that GAME has been saved from administration by retail turnaround specialist OpCapita. Baker Acquisitions’ purchase of UKIE member, Game’s UK assets is a very positive move for the UK games industry,” UKIE CEO Dr Jo Twist stated. Not having a …

Cult RPG developer Nippon Ichi has announced plans to bring three Japanese RPGs to the Western PS3 market. The first, called The Witch and the Hundred Kings, is internally developed and will receive a full-blooded retail release. This will be joined by the Compile Heart developed MugenSouls. Also on the …

You buy all the games, you subscribe to Elite, you have a COD branded baseball cap and you question the sexuality of underage boys online. But what next? Surely there’s another way you can prove your devotion to all things Call of Duty? Yes! There is. You can pay Machine …

More than 200 developers worked on upcoming Xbox 360 title

Credits for popular minigame can be earned through achieving in-game feats or paying cash

Team Meat promises 'feature length touch controlled platformer specifically designed for touch devices'