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After attending a recent lunch at the House of Commons, Richard Hill-Whittall has some doubts

An entire MMO has been wiped from the internet after the game’s server was damaged beyond repair, according to translated reports. It has emerged that Japanese firm Sankando had shut down its MMO, called M2, late in October to perform emergency maintenance on a set of servers. Despite efforts by …

November 30th deadline for submissions

iOS edition goes live tomorrow; Android and Apple customers can mix online

Sony is to release the three titles included in its Sly Cooper HD Collection as individual downloads on the PlayStation Network, Siliconera reports. The retail SKU contained three games – Sly Racoon, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves. All three have been given a full …

It’s something that’s unthinkable today, but back in 1985 Shigeru Miyamoto’s team was developing two titles at the same time. The first was the multi-million selling behemoth, Super Mario Bros. The other arrived a year later and was designed to be a more immersive, deeper video game experience. A game …

Andy and the team outline the basic gameplay concepts for their debut project - but coding it is going to be tricky...

[Intel sponsored feature] With the advent of HTML5, format wars are a thing of the past. Or are they?

Having amazingly only gone gold on PC yesterday, tomorrow will see the long-awaited arrival of Minecraft on iOS. Minecraft: Pocket Edition, which is a cut-down version of the PC title, has been available on Android for three months and was initially exclusive to Sony Ericsson’s ‘PlayStation Phone’ the Xperia Play. …

Xbox and MCV will hold this year’s final networking night for retail and media on Thursday December 1st. Companies battling it out already include Tesco, Amazon, Comet, Turner Media Innovations, Gamespot, Videogamer.com, Future, Nintendo, Ubisoft, NCsoft, Gem, Lygo, Microsoft and newcomers Lick Creative. There is currently one team slot left, …