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Namco Bandai’s Tekken 3D Prime Edition will hit UK shelves on February 17th with Nintendo responsible for sales, marketing and distribution. The publisher has entered into a new distribution agreement with Nintendo for European territories and Australia. Nintendo will also distribute accompanying Namco Bandai 3DS title One Piece Unlimited Cruise …

Servers to go back online 'by end of December' after internal investigation into security breach

US consumers spent an estimated $4.2bn on video games in Q3 overall – a year-on-year drop of 11 per cent. That figure represents money spent on hardware, content and accessories, according to the Q3 2011 US Games Market Dynamics report from The NPD Group. Buyers spent $1.3bn on new physical …

Prominent games education institute gives backing to government body

Your favourite MCV online content is now available as an app for phones powered by Google’s OS, sponsored by Shorewood Blueprint. To download our new Android app, simply visit this page on the Android Market – the app is completely free. It displays the top stories of the day, has …

Newly-named RPG Dream Drop Distance will bring Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts franchise to 3DS in 2012. The game was originally announced as Kingdom Hearts 3D at E3 2010 and was featured in a list of major third-party franchises heading to Nintendo’s new handheld. As with previous Kingdom Hearts titles, it …

Free mini-game collection Ape Escape included in latest update

Whale Trail creator may double effort with developing own IP games in 2012

UK games retailers took a whopping 73.9m last week from game sales alone. In total 2,978,493 titles were sold last week. It’s up over the week before, although slightly down on the comparable week in 2010. But this year there’s still a full sales week to come, including a Saturday …

Brighton studio 'serious' about social and mobile gaming