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The UK’s leading supermarket Tesco has landed the rights to a tasty freebie for Warner Interactive’s Batman: Arkham City. Those who pre-order with the chain will be rewarded with the Joker’s Carnival Challenge Map DLC. The stand-alone mission set is said to add around four hours of additional gameplay to …

Kim Swift, the DigiPen student who co-created Portal and subsequently quit Valve, has revealed her new project, a familiar-looking FPS puzzle game called Quantum Conundrum. The new title, built with the team at Airtight Games, features what could be many ideas that Swift had for Portal 2 before she left …

This week we focus our attention on vacancies specifically for programmers

Microsoft has revealed that gamers’ first chance to get a look at the Halo 4 version of the iconic Warthog land vehicle will be in racing title Forza 4. Wired reports that the vehicle will be hidden somewhere in Turn 10’s racer, which is due out in the UK on …

But Luminos tech 'is not available for external studios'

Meet the most powerful Brit in the global games industry.Andrew House is the new president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment. He has been interviewed by MCV seven times and has been the face of PlayStation Europe for over two years. But who is he really? And what will he …

Airtight's first-person puzzle game to be released on Steam

Rob Davey is to leaveEA UK for a new roleDown Under. From September 12th, the former UK sales director takes the role of general manager of the SANZA (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia) territory. He’ll report into Mark Bradley. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time at EA UK and I …

Smartphone group finishes work on cloud-based mobile tech

Developer HB Studios’ believes it could have a sporting smash hit on its hands with Rugby World Cup 2011 – if England performs well in the competition, of course. The 505-published title arrives today (August 26th) ahead of the tournament, which starts in New Zealand on September 9th. It’s a …