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London Games Conference has gained another two sponsors in the form of Multiplay and AGI. The firms are Gold Sponsors of the UK’s premier games conference, this year entitled London Games Conference: Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry. Multiplay is a leading service provider for the industry and organiser …

Microsoft has hit back at criticism that it isn’t doing enough to support PC gamers. The platform holder says it should be its job to offer leadership in the sector, and will step up with three market-leading PC titles: Fable III, Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight. There’s been …

Super Meat Boy developer will pump new levels into the game without MS checks

Erstwhile Future publisher Richard Keith has set up a new online games media company, called The Games Tribe. Launching in the first week of October it will be, in part but not only, an aggregation hub for a range of niche sites. Some will be existing, low budget outfits that …

As well as shattering records in the West, Halo Reach has also been waging war on the Eastern front – and the news has been mixed. The game managed to chart at number four in the Media Create Top Ten, an accomplishment that is not to be underestimated in a …

HMV emerged triumphant at last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Quiz, fending off stiff competition from Microsoft, GameSpot, Imagine Publishing and Tesco. A mixture of retailers, media, peripheral firms and publishers gathered at London’s Sway Bar to battle to be the biggest brains in games, and win some pretty spectacular prizes, including …

A unrivalled commitment to cutting costs was the key driver in Bungie’s decision to sign a ten-year deal with Activision, the publisher’s boos Bobby Kotick has claimed. Speaking to investors, Kotick outlined a number of ways that his firm keeps a close check on its balance sheets including, bizarrely, the …

Foundation 9 â??the game industry's secret weaponâ?? says boss

The long awaited release of Halo Reach last week was the biggest games event of 2010 – but 2009’s gaming champ isn’t much impressed. According to figures from Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the most played game on Xbox Live for the week ending …

Atari GO marks next phase for the recycled firm