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Publisher delegates work to hundreds of staff overseas; Core 150 team in Japan

Quantic Dream director to give sixty-minute lecture

Retailer GAME is once again offering consumers the chance to effectively rent new titles for a limited period. Starting today and running until February 29th, the ‘Fun for a Fiver’ promotion allows consumers to buy selected titles with a guaranteed trade-in credit within two weeks of purchase, meaning as long …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC can only be accessed by one player profile per console, forum complaints suggest.UPDATE: Activision aware of ‘unintentional’ problem. Users may have to purchase Elite content twice if they want to play it under a different profile on their Xbox 360 console – something …

Intent Media will launch a trade site and daily email for the exploding Nordic games community this spring. Covering Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, MCV Nordic will arrive in mid-March with local editors and in partnership with local trade organisations.It will cover all aspects of the industry, from publishing, …

Resident Evil 6 is Capcom’s largest-scale production the publisher’s ever worked on, with 600 staff working on the title. The ‘dramatic horror’ title – revealed last week – will also promise a ‘larger world’ than previous Resident Evil games. Exec producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said: This is by far the largest-scale …

Quality is vital in standing out from the freebies, says BioWare man

[In association with Jagex] We ask studio heads in the region how it is facing new challenges

This year’s new Assassin’s Creed will be the biggest game in the series so far, Ubisoft told MCV. It is understood that it will inject new life into the series, featuring fresh lead characters for the first time since 2009. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has high hopes for this Christmas’ …

Next generation system months away from release across key territories