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Tonight, Apple takes the wrappers off its iPad 2 tablet. MCV’s sister site ME is reporting live from the London simulcast of the launch event, so you can see all the key features, stats and analysis in one place (without having to watch back the entire webcast). Bookmark this page …

Vicious Cycle engine joins the ranks of Sony handheld-supporting tech

CONTACT: 01273 746864Rupert Loman – FounderRupert@eurogamer.net EUROGAMER’S ABCe STATS5,216,449 (November 2010) 2010 was a very good year for Eurogamer. The company continued to grow its presence across both Europe and the UK – most notably with the launch of kids-centric games site Megaton and the expanded Eurogamer Expo, which attracted 20,000 visitors. …

The stars of next month’s highly anticipated Pokmon games are already on shelves – in trading card form. Released earlier this week, the Zoroark: World of Illusions gift box marked the beginning of a major retail marketing drive for Pokmon Black and White. The company behind the Pokmon Trading Card …

Simon Watts will be joining THQ’s US team next week. He will be leaving the publisher’s UK arm after three and a half years to start his Stateside duties on March 1st. Watts will retain his role as global communications manager, having spent a year liaising remotely with the US …

Recruitment agency Austin Banks has branched out into the games industry. The Doncaster-based firm is currently restructuring its business, and a focus on video games will be crucial to the company’s future. We are moving away from local, support-level recruitment and into national, executive-level recruitment within clearly defined niches – …

RuneScape studio Jagex has signed an agreement with TripleACodes to distribute the game in Eastern Europe. TripleACodes will offer digital subscription codes in areas of low credit card penetration such as Poland. This means Eastern European players will now have the option to sign up to the MMO’s paid-for service …

Microsoft should be so lucky – it’s just signed a deal with a global popstar to ensure gamers can’t get Kinect out of their heads. Kylie Minogue will take Kinect and Dance Central on her 35-stop European tour following a deal between Xbox EMEA and EMI Music. In fact, Dance …

Mojang, the super-indie studio behind runaway success story Minecraft, has revealed the next project it is working on as a card game-focused title called Scrolls. Revealed by Gamasutra, the game is a single and multiplayer title focused on collecting and ‘battling’ cards on a game board. Jakob Porser, head developer …

Consumer games site Eurogamer has announced that tickets are now officially on sale for the fourth Eurogamer Expo which will take place at London’s Earls Court between September 22nd and September 25th. Early-bird prices are currently available with one day tickets priced at 8 – that’s the same as last …