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Publisher EA has for the first time detailed exactly how its freshly launched content portal Origin will work on iOS. The system bears more than a passing resemblance to Microsoft’s Xbox Live. And it won’t support Apple’s Game Centre wither, with EA clearly hoping to forge its own network of …

Online digital retailer Green Man Gaming is offering free PC games through today’s issue of The Sun. The firm has provided voucher codes to the tabloid, which can be redeemed for three games at greenmangaming.com. The codes are available at The Sun’s website, and the promotion is expected to reach …

The latest issue of your weekly MCV is now available to read online, on iPad and iPhone. This week’s edition features an essential guide to the UK’s games buyers, as well as interviews with Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg and 2K Games boss Christoph Hartmann. Registered members can read this …

This week we turn our attentions to jobs outside the UK and US

Bitdrop warns indies away from Amazon's Android platform

In a new weekly feature, we look at the overall advertising activity for video games on TV. This is provided by specialist communication firm Generation Media which focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. In week one we take a look at the year-on-year weekly marketing dynamics from January 1st …

Publisher EA has at long last officially revealed the much rumoured Burnout spin-off Burnout Crash and if nothing else it’s certainly a radical departure for the IP. Crash ditches the destructible 3D visuals players of the previous games’ crash junctions are used to in favour of a more cartoonish top-down …

Peripherals manufacturer Mad Catz has signed a publishing agreement with Microsoft to produce games for Xbox 360. The news comes following the firm’s opening of in-house developer ThunderHawk Studios which is working on a flight simulator game. Other details on its first Xbox 360 games have not yet been revealed. …

Sony Online Entertainment has finally lifted the security gates on its long-rumoured first person MMO project – Planetside 2. Little is known of the game aside from the fact that the shooting action takes place in a persistent world and will feature a wide assortment of combat roles, though several …

Australian broadcaster ABC3 has extended the running time of its video game TV show Good Game: Spawn Point (GG:SP) from 15 to 30 minutes after a hugely successful first season. GG:SP recently held a preview screening for its newly expanded show at the ABC offices in Sydney, boasting some impressive …