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Global entertainment giant Lionsgate and acquired the rights to make a feature film based on recent Deep Silver hit Dead Island. The studio has said that the game’s hit trailer (which for a time was a very hot topic on MCVuk.com) is serving as its primary creative inspiration” for the …

This weekend, Brisbane will play host to the second year of AusCon, a convention for videogamers, wargamers and cosplayers. The event will play host to dozens of board game and table top gaming competitions, as well as a selection of videogames which will appeal to the predominantly anime and pop-culture …

Col Kennedy, former head of Disney Interactive’s EMEA product marketing team, has recently come on board as the marketing director for THQ Asia-Pacific. Previously to his role at Disney Interactive, Kennedy worked in SCEE’s EMEA 1st party product team, and now reports directly to Rodney Block, VP of THQ for …

After the departure of Luke Reilly last month, Citrus Media has appointed associate editor Adam Mathew to the helm of Australian Official Playstation Magazine. Mathew has long been writing for OPM, which is now in its tenth year.His first freelance writing job in the games industry was also for the …

Virgin Gaming has teamed up with EA for the most lucrative tournament so far. The firms are offering $1.6m to the winner of the Battlefield 3 Worldwide Conquest Tournament, which kicks off from next year. It will culminate in a live grand finale. You can read more about it at …

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Promising new games put under the eyes of publishers at Paris event

An ITV documentary aired last night in UK reportedly used footage from PC war sim Arma II as evidence of the IRA’s procurement of weapons from Colonel Gaddafi. The film, called ‘Exposure – Gaddafi and the IRA’ supposedly showed a scene of IRA militants gunning down a helicopter using vehicle-mounted …