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After the disappointment of PSN failing to hit its first target recovery date last week, Sony has now admitted that the service may not be fully back online for another three weeks. Speaking to Bloomberg, Shigenori Yoshida – who is referred to as a ‘spokesman’ – has said that Sony …

Want to share your 3DS avatar with the rest of the industry? Send us the QR code for it today, and you could be featured in an upcoming issue of MCV. Following the collection of games industry Miis featured in the most recent issue, we’re inviting all and sundry to …

Develop uncovers the strange and spectacular way Valve creates blockbusters

Valve co-founder offers insight on the studio's new development philosophy

Despite the heavyweight challenges of chart rivals such as Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat, 505 Games’ exercise title Zumba Fitness has this week claimed its third No.1 in the UKIE Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It does so despite a slight sales dip of three per cent week-on-week, which as …

Over thirty staff at Crytek Budapest will be made redundant after E3, according to reports. It is said that nine people have already lost their jobs at the Hungarian dev outfit. Avni Yerli, co-founder of the Crysis 2 company, confirmed to Gamasutra that the Budapest studio is getting a new …

So the answer to my question last week about how the market copes in the gap before ‘Wii 2′ was answered pretty swiftly. Answered with a price cut that has the potential to significantly lengthen the life of this generation’s star machine. It’s Wii’s first price-drop after nearly five years …

Chart-Track has hit back at download platform Steam for dismissing the need for a digital chart. Steam’s Jason Holtman told MCV last month that the idea of a chart ‘is old’ and that it isn’t ‘super important for a company to know how well everyone else is doing’. Now Chart-Track’s …

The PSN security crisis – which saw personal data of 77m customers stolen and forced Sony’s online games service offline for over two weeks – is a warning to the games industry. That’s according to UK experts hoping to grow their own digital businesses. These execs say the industry needs …

The Fun Inc. author on why he's heading to the industry conference in Gateshead