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Almost one-in-three registered users have now paid for Mojang Specifications' sensationally popular MMORPG

Warner Bros Seattle studio boss to head Brighton conference's business track

Details are vague but the Fallout New Vegas studio appears to be cutting into workforce

Travis Steiner jumps ship for unspecified startup after big game release

New outlook for the Force Unleashed company after internal tech work

The biggest night in the UK video games industry calendar took place earlier this month, and you can now relive some of the best bits of the MCV Industry Excellence Awards 2011 in the video at the bottom of this story. Over 600 guests jammed into The Brewery, Chiswell Street …

Portal 2 developer Valve has reportedly suggested that the game would be the developer’s last single-player game. The news comes by way of Valve behind-the-scenes chronicler Geoff Keighley who last week published an Apple iPad application called "The final hours of Portal 2". In the application Keighley said "Portal 2 …

European operational duties handed over

The majority shareholders of social games giant Bigpoint have sold a large portion of their stock in a deal valued at $350 million. The transaction is complex and not all information has been disclosed. In June 2008, General Electric, NBC Universal and private equity firm GMT Communications acquired a 70 …

It was EA that dominated the charts this month with some 12 games in the Top 50. Crysis 2 in third place was the publisher’s biggest seller, but sneaking under the radar to make the Top Five was Fight Night Champion, the game was the second biggest seller on PS3 last …