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Series creator Al Lowe comes out of retirement to head up project

Publisher defends Street Fighter X Tekken's locked content

Former head of digital at Barnstorm Games and Ex-ARM dev join Football Manager studio

Serellan now looking to bring in private investors to complete title

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 …