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Good news at last for HMV, as its banks have agreed to support the troubled retailer. The Group’s future has been in doubt for over 12 months, with the entertainment giant forced to sell its Waterstone’s and HMV Canada businesses. And its position wasn’t helped by yet another difficult Christmas …

In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Namco Bandaiis recruiting for a new product manager and we run through the hottest job opportunities. UK Product Manager needed at Namco Bandai The Japanese publisher’s UK arm is seeking to expand its product management team. The …

Computing giant reports 24 per cent growth compared to previous year

Browser games studio Night Owl Games backing lobbyists

Social games giant has 'spent $120 million on acquiring new users', claims analyst

Online marketplace to offer 90 per cent of revenues to developers if 16 more games are uploaded before deadline

Tequila Works' debut title Deadlight to release on Xbox in summer

This week we turn our attention to a range of jobs across the UK

'Vast majority' of Anno customers unaffected by hardware problems claims publisher

Publisher Ubisoft has once again been forced to defend the DRM it chose to implement in one of its PC titles. MCV reported earlier this weekthat strategy title Anno 2070 uses a limited activation system. This in itself is not uncommon but it transpires that if a user changes any …