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Social network giant Facebook says its fast-growing global games platform comes from one thing: a focus on people. Speaking to MCV, engineers at the firm said Facebook’s social layer has helped reboot industries for the better. The higher level of what we are doing is working with industries to reimagine …

But the reality of the fast-emerging model that ditches consoles and traditional publishers has stretched established studios in unexpected ways and will distort others further. Where once they talked creativity, now it’s creativity… plus marketing. And monetisation. And market data.Our cover lead story in this week’s MCV hinges on how …

The question about why we don’t have a digital sales chart yet rolls around regularly. This time things are different.UKIE’s effort is so close you can taste it but need just a nudge at to make it a reality. Of course a ‘digital chart’ can broadly be anything – the …

The next game from Finnish studio Rovio may just outshine Q1’s biggest boxed game releases when it releases movie tie-in Angry Birds Rio next week. The smartphone app, which takes the original Angry Birds and themes it around 20th Century Fox bird film Rio, launches on March 22nd – and …

Blizzard believes the eagerly anticipated EA/LucasArts MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, could be the biggest shot in the arm for the genre since World of Warcraft. The firm’s co-founder and executive vice president Frank Pearce told MCV that one of the keys to World of Warcraft’s success was building …

Rocksteady and NetherRealm to use Epic tech exclusively until 2014

Zampella and Westâ??s new business partner set to meet Activision in court

Amazon.co.uk has lowered the price of the 3DS to 187 making it the cheapest offering for consumers, along with Morrisons. The 3DS has also become the most pre-ordered gaming console on the online retailer’s website. Customers have placed 20 per cent more pre-orders on the handheld device than they did …

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