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Remedy CEO says he wonâ??t shed a tear if retail dies

The Wii Vitality Sensor has not been abandoned and is still on track for a launch at some stage, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has confirmed. "I imagine that you are worried about that because it hasn’t been put on the market even though a long time has passed since it …

Dev master wants to teach the craft to a new generation

Saints Row studio co-founder departs to take a break

Developer Silicon Knights has stated that it still intends to press ahead with two further instalments in its Too Human series. The game was famously in development for over a decade. It was originally scheduled for release on the PSOne before becoming a GameCube title and subsequently becoming an Xbox …

'Five Facebook releases before 2012' as social dev ZipZapPlay is bought

The latest DLC release for Call of Duty: Black Ops goes live today, and we’re offering one lucky MCV reader a chance to grab the content for free. Black Ops: Escalation includes four new multiplayer maps as well as a brand new zombie level starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert England, …

As well as rebooting the series, Driver: San Francisco will differ from its predecessors in another key way – it’s going to be a lot funnier. "We have focused back on the original core feel of Driver, that sense of being down in the thick of a street level Hollywood …

Fame is, as the saying goes, a fickle food. One minute you’re on top… the next, on the scrapheap. Driver knows that journey all too well. The first Driver and Driver 2 are firmly fixed gaming classics, beloved by many. But Driv3r? Let’s not. Fourth game Parallel Lines? Check Wikipedia. …

Five new board members for the growing games trade association