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In what is certainly a very unusual move, online file-sharing giant RapidShare has chosen to deliberately slow its download speed for non-registered users. The site denies that this is simply a tactic to drive users to its registered, paying users. Instead, it claims the decision was made to make the …

The new boss of Argos says he has been given a clean sheet from Home Retail Chairman Oliver Stocken to embark upon a brand new strategy for the catalogue retailer. And speaking to Bloomberg, John Walden said that he’s open to the idea of potentially using Argos stores in a …

Burnout developer looking for A-level and university candidates

One of the most successful Japanese console game developers has predicted that the console market will continue to shrink and in its place will rise a stronger, dominant portable games market. Consoles – PS3, PS4, Xbox 360-2 – the market for those will get smaller, and the main market will …

Angry Birds studio also contemplating its own acquisitions or an IPO

Tokyo judge orders game removed from online store; Dena indicates it will appeal

Ubisoft has lifted the lid on the Assassin’s Creed Revelations: Ottoman Edition, as well as two other brand new games. The Ottoman Edition offers the full game as well as all the DLC that has subsequently been released. This includes The Ancestor’s Character Pack, The Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack and …

In MCV’s weekly rundown of thehottest vacancies and latest personnel news, GAME reorganises its head office team and we look at the best job opportunities. GAME promotes Brennan in head office restructure Two members of GAME Group’s head office staff have taken on new positions. Commercial strategy director Tricia Brennan …

There’s no margin to be made on new releases anymore.” MCV hears this more and more from specialist stores every week. Once upon a time boxed games would be sold very close to their RRP on release day. But this hasn’t been the trend for years. Earlier this month we …

System 3 has secured a new long-term deal with Ferrari. The independent Brit publisher, which has released two Ferrari-branded video games to date, says the deal follows its success in Japan. The last game in the series, Ferrari: The Race Experience, has been a mainstay in the Japanese PSN charts …