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Stuart Dredge, the online editor of MCV sister site ME, has been named one of the world’s top online ‘voices’ on the ‘SAY 100: Online Voices That Shape Opinion’ list. It comprises representatives from multiple sectors including Style, Food, Business, Design, Travel and so on. Stuart Miles, editor of Pocket-lint, …

The rebirth of the Smurf continues to gather pace following Capcom’s confirmation that its free-to-play iOS title Smurfs’ Village has now passed the 10m download mark on the Apple App Store. Fellow Capcom title Zombie Cafe has also hit the same milestone. In this highly competitive market, the secret behind …

After a period of intense interest amongst certain parts of the online games community, Atlus’ PS3 and Xbox 360 outingCatherine has debuted at the top of the Japanese software charts. The game is conspicuous by its blatant use of overtly sexual imagery – a surprising rarity in the still often …

The rumours were true – the world will finally get its first look at the Apple iPad 2 next week. Apple has begun sending out invites to a San Francisco based reveal scheduled for Wednesday March 2nd at 18:00GMT. It is to be held at the Yerba Buena Center, which …

We speak to The Creative Assembly to find out what the upcoming release of Shogun 2 will mean for the Total War series

Develop speaks to Minor Studios about its latest project

Develop continues its profiles of emerging and leading technology

Apple sends out official invitations for a media event next week in San Francisco

Granny 3D, Bink and Miles Sound System to open doors to developing for Sony's new platform

Mobile Entertainment man takes his place alongside scribes from BBC, Engadget and Mashable