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April marks the 10th Anniversary of the MCV Industry Excellence Awards, and we’ve a special night planned to celebrate the trade’s successes. This event is about the hard work done by the people in the industry. While 2012’s event may be a milestone for us, the real story is the …

Our monthly studio recruitment update looks at Codemasters, Playfish and West Pier

Develop talks to Rebellion's Neverdead devs on blending Eastern and Western sensibilities

Developer Luma Arcade on Unity's triple-A potential

Publisher 'couldn't find right formula for success' at former Action Pants developer

I was speaking at theEuropean Cloud Gaming Summityesterday and amidst warning people about the upcoming under-12 revolution I made the suggestion that some of the well-heeled publishers in the room should buy GAME Group (the troubled UK retailer). Cue most people’s jaws dropping. Buy a retailer? Are you nuts? GAME …

Daily advice on recruitment and HR from the industry's top companies. Today: The Moshi Monsters studio on CV crafting

The president and CEO of SCE Andrew House has labelled last year’s high-profile hack on the PlayStation Network as ironic”. The statement comes as much of the internet – including most famously Wikipedia – have ceased operations for a day in protest at the proposed US legislation SOPA that is …

Hudson Soft, one of the big-hitters in the early days of video gaming, will pass away on March 1st. It will be absorbed into owning company Konami, which acquired the firm in April 2011, and will effectively disappear from the industry forever. Hudson was behind classic IP such as Bomberman, …

There’s a new console hoping to muscle its way under your TV – Alienware’s X51 gaming PC. The device is not a million miles away from Xbox 360 in terms of form and is indeed almost the same size. It comes with either the Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 …