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Nintendo’s decision to slash the price of 3DS has seemingly had the desired effect in Japan. Though MCV is not able to publish UK sales figures, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain (via Andriasang) has revealed that 3DS sales jumped significantly in Japan following the decision to cut the handheld’s price from 25k …

Fewer, bigger, better. That seems to be an increasingly common trend amongst traditional console games publishers, and THQ’s executive VP of core games Danny Bilson is all for it. That’s all we can really do,” he told VG247. It’s not just Activision or us; look at what EA’s doing on …

The Interactive Media Institute (IMI) at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia is set to host GAME, a 3 day event featuring prominent figures in the games sector. The event, which will run from October 27-29, is comprised of a videogames festival, academic conference presentations, and a public debate. Keynote speakers …

GAMESCOM:Signs are increasingly pointing to a big return for Hideo Kojima’s Zone of the Enders IP. An image posted to Twitter by Kojima himself clearly shows both a ZOE model and, far more interestingly, a background logo that clearly says ‘ZOE 3DS’. Kojima’s accompanying Tweet simply asks What’s this?”, so …

The Australian Federal and State government is pushing the Interactive Skills Integration Scheme (ISIS) forward to employ game developers outside the sector. The scheme’s aim is to advocate several pilot programs, which will see games development and interactive media professionals employed in one of the ‘pilot businesses’, each of which …

Minecraft has today launched for Android.And guess what: this release isn’t a final version, either. The first version is Alpha 0.1 and is a timed exclusive for the Xperia Play handsets. It costs $6.99 but will eventually roll out to all Android devices. Dubbed Minecraft – Pocket Edition, this version …

MCV Pacific has continued its expansion with the introduction of Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg as marketing and advertising manager. Blomberg will be responsible for spearheading the new brand’s ad sales and promoting it throughout the region via a series of events and partnerships. Companies interested in discussing a wide range of …

'Pocket edition' of popular indie game is timed exclusive to Xperia Play before wider roll-out

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GDC Europe: 40 per cent cut 'fair and competitive'