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The publishing rights for the video game tie-in of next year’s Star Trek movie have been acquired by Namco Bandai. Licensed movie titles are not the given they once were and have to some extent fallen out of favour. However, Namco clearly feels there is an opportunity to capitalise on …

Valve’s Gabe Newell sent out a notification today warning patrons of the company’s digital distribution service Steam that hackers may have obtained a copy of a file containing payment transaction details dated 2004-2008. "This backup file contained user names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. It …

Epic boss says there are too many platforms on the market

No evidence data has been compromised, Gabe Newell advises caution

Mobile Social Games company to set up shop in the China Basin

General manager leaves social media company for venture fund

Record-breaking RPG Skyrim has paved the way for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, says EA. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a smash hit for Bethesda after going on sale last November, shipping well over 10m units, topping the Christmas sales chart and breaking records on download platform Steam. As EA …

Children’s social gaming sites such as Moshi Monsters accounted for almost ten per cent of all video game TV advertising last month. From January 1st to 22nd 2011 there were just two of these sites advertising on UK TV, Moshi Monsters and Fight My Monster.These accounted for 5.9 per cent, …

Search engine giant wants to avoid games spam on its social network

In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, industry veteran Al King returns to games and we run through the best job opportunities. WARGAMING.NET RECRUITS KING The company behind online games such as World of Tanks and World of Warplanes has hired Al King as global …