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Computec has relaunched its Make The Game contest, offering developers the chance to get their game published. The prize is a publishing contract and marketing budget worth €1m, plus an advertising campaign that will push the winning social game to the European media firm’s audience of over 5m consumers. We …

Time is running out to ensure your games industry favourites are in the running for this year’s MCV Awards. You only have a little over 24 hours tohighlight the work done by your colleagues, suppliers, customers, or even a rival, for their biggest achievements of the past year. And don’t …

There are more UK consumers playing social games online than ever before, but how are they spending their money? With the help of PopCap Games and other industry experts, MCV investigates… The number of social gamers who purchased in-game currency with real-life money doubled year-on-year. This is partly due to …

The strategic postponement” of major titles and a drastic overhaul of the business” were blamed as the key reasons behind its poor financials. The publisher saw net income for the nine months ending December 31st 2001 fall 52.6 per cent to 3,242m. Operating income fell 47.2 per cent to 6,744m …

Consolidated revenues down by a third, financial documents show

We have put together a special magazine all about PlayStation Vita – and the 20-page guide is now available to download, read in your web browser or access via iPad. The in-depth look at Sony’s handheld – due to hit UK shelves on February 22nd – includes everything you need …

Sony’s PlayStation Vita has overtaken its predecessor the PSp for the first time since its launch week in Japan. Andriasang reports that the handheld sold 18,942 last week – that’s over 3,500 more units than in the week before and almost 3,000 units more than the PSP, which sold 17,181 …

Deal between social giants expires May 2015

NaturalMotion and Jagex to also host speaker sessions

EA has announced that it has sold 2m copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic since its release in December, attracting 1.7m active subscribers in the process. Unique daily log-ins for the game stand at around 1m per day with an average playtime of approximately four hours per day. EA …