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An experienced Rockstar North games designer has broken away from the company to open his own micro-studio. Anthony Gowland is building mobile and web content at the new Edinburgh outfit, known as Mainly About Games. With the varied distribution opportunities now available to developers, it felt like the perfect time …

Months after the game originally hit the headlines, Ubisoft’s We Dare has once again ignited the spark of controversy. The game went unnoticed for months earlier this year until Ubisoft went live with what some – although certainly not MCV – felt to be controversial trailer for the Wii title. …

Publisher 2K Games has confirmed that it has ditched US PR firm The Redner Group. Redner hit the headlines yesterday after publicly threatening to blacklist – as in, stop sending out review code for upcoming games – any media that it felt was too harsh on the critically slammed Duke …

Publisher EA has denied that it took the decision to remove Crysis 2 from Valve’s download service Steam. Yesterday it was reported that EA had taken the game off Valve’s portal and instead put it on its own Origin download service, complete with the slogan "Buy Now – Only on …

Simulation company inks licensing agreement with German AI specialist

Anthony Gowland opens micro-studio in Edinburgh

It was once billed as a US revolution on the UK High Street, but now big question marks hang over the future of Best Buy in the UK. The European joint venture with Carphone Warehouse posted a loss of 62m this week – that’s triple the loss seen in 2010 …

Just Cause developer seeking new talent for 'original AAA projects'

Why has Nordic Games chosen to focus on Wii?We chose Wii because there was clearly a gap for its very own SingStar, and that’s what we’ve provided. Another consideration was the cost to produce a genuinely good quality game using only start-up money. Two years ago that wasn’t possible for …

In a remarkable public outburst, one US PR agency has threatened to withhold review code of upcoming game from media outlets who were particularly harsh on Duke Nukem Forever. Following the lifting of the US reviews embargo last night, the game’s Xbox 360 average on Metacritic has fallen to 48 …