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Hudson’s 3DS line-up may still see the light of day, says Konami. Reports emerged earlier this week that Hudson Soft had cancelled three 3DS titles – Bomberman 3D, Bonk and Omega Five – after the games were removed from Famitsu’s release schedule. However, Wired has now received a statement from …

It’s been out of the games biz for some time, but clearly Dixons Retail has spotted an opportunity to burst back into games retail with aplomb. Tech Radar reports that the Currys store in London’s Oxford Street will be opening its doors at 23:45 tonight to welcome the 3DS’ UK …

The hacker at the centre of an increasingly bizarre legal battle with PS3 has reportedly fled to South America. VGHQ has unearthed Sony documents claiming that George Hotz has been removing key components from his electrical equipment so as to hide crucial information the company is trying to unearth as …

Briton Ashley Mitchell stole $12 million in online currency

John Broomhall speaks to BAFTA-award winning composer Jason Graves about his work on Visceral's horror title

Trade body UKIE wants members of the games industry to become role models to young people and encourage them to start a career in games. UKIE has teamed with STEMNET – the organisation that promotes science, tech, engineering and maths to students – to introduce a Video Games Ambassadors scheme. …

UK trade body wants you to help foster the games development talent of tomorrow

Just when you thought the price war that has defined the launch build up for the 3DS couldn’t get any more competitive, the supermarkets go and prove you wrong. MCV can reveal that Tesco will offer Nintendo’s 3DS console for just 175 from midnight tonight. The price will be available …

One of the world’s largest DVD and music distributors has entered the games business in a big way. Cinram UK will replace MBL as Morrisons’ official DVD, music and games distributor from September 14th. Although Cinram has worked with the likes of Ubisoft and EA in the past, this marks …

GAME wants to trump Eurogamer’s popular Expo by encouraging publishers to debut new games at its own Birmingham show first. GameFest will run for five days in September, the firm has told MCV. The first two days will feature its trade-only managers’ conference. GAME announced the show last week: it’ll …