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The Metropolitan Police has charged a hacker it arrested earlier this week with five offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act. As previously reported by MCV, the 19 year-old Essex teenager in question is indeed Ryan Cleary. He is accused of constructing and distributing bots designed to …

We profile People Can Fly, Crytek, Ninja Theory, Evolution Studios, Guerrilla Games, Playdead and The Creative Assembly

Rumours suggest big-money swoop could be made by Zynga, EA or DeNA

Gloucestershire studio has ambitions to expand further

Mobile games giant Dena secures exclusivity deal with Epic

iPhone, Android and browsers all supported with new 'drag-and-drop' game creator

Sony is offering a free 180-day trial of its Q Music Unlimited service. It offers users the chance to sample the ad-free internet radio style experience with a library totalling 7m tracks. The deal is open to PS3 owners who haven’t previously or aren’t currently subscribed to the service. PS3 …

Sony’s PSVita will sponsor this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Gamess as Gold Partner. The firm will use the event to promote its upcoming handheld to the UK’s 200+ elite games media at what has become the big night of the year for the UK’s specialist press. …

New features include geometry tessellation and parallax occlusion mapping

Namco Bandai and Capcom may be competitors in the video games market place, but a shared need to find success out of their home country of Japan has brought the pair together. That’s according to Namco’s VP of label and brand strategy Hiro Ochiai, who was speaking to MCV about …