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You’ve grown to a chain of six stores. What do you attribute this success to? Probably the staff, the buying team, working closely with publishers, keeping a tight rein on finances, ambition, and just a general passion for the industry. You make it sound easy. How simple is it to …

The Fluid Pixel director on why he's heading to the industry conference in Gateshead

Russian social developer building outside of Facebook

THQ is spending 1m to get sci-fi lovers excited about Red Faction: Armageddon. Cinema advertisements will run from May 30th to July 7th, with spots appearing around screenings of X-Men and Green Lantern. A new Red Faction film, subtitled Origins, will air on TV channel SyFy shortly after the Xbox …

Survey of 500 app creators claims two-thirds have lost money from promotion ban

Publisher Ubisoft and platform holder Nintendo will this October release a 3DS hardware bundle containing portable titles, MCV can reveal. According to the information, which comes from a leaked release schedule from a leading distributor, the pair will on October 1st launch a new SKU containing the console as well …

Californian tech firm OmniVision has confirmed that it has won a lucrative contract for work on an upcoming games console. Though no such confirmation is given, the conclusion that nearly everyone has jumped to is that the company will be supplying camera devices for Nintendo’s Project Cafe, which will be …

Smartphone games specialists Gameloft say its new mobile MMO game has generated over $1 million in revenue after just twenty days since release. The MMORPG, called Order & Chaos, has the potential to generate far more, however, by virtue of its subscription-based model. Order & Chaos is available for an …

Keza MacDonald has joined IGN UK as games editor. She will start on Monday, June 13th and report to UK editor-in-chief Alex Simmons. MacDonald is a highly experienced games journalist, having written for The Observer, Edge, Eurogamer, Official Nintendo and VG247. She has also acted as a consultant for ad …

Mike Gamble revealed as new European territory manager