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CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S COMPREHENSIVE AND FULLY UPDATED RELEASE SCHEDULE. The industry’s momentum continues to build as a wave of hot new releases arrives on the High Street today. Perhaps the biggest release is Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, a brand new adventure that allows players to do whatever a spider …

German trade show Gamescom has become an official Event Partner of this year’s Games Media Awards, as it continues to strengthen ties with the UK press. The Cologne expo has become a key date in the global gaming calendar and this year’s show was the biggest and most successful so …

Appleâ??s relaxed restrictions on App Store tools has â??direct implications for Adobeâ??s Packager for iPhoneâ??

The next ten years mapped out with milestones and projects pencilled in, says the studioâ??s community director

GamesAid has thanked retailers for their support in making the PS3 Triple Pack a hit, with sales set to surpass 100,000. The money raised has gone straight to support Paddington Academy, which this week posted impressive exam results in the GCSEs and A-Levels. 94 per cent of students in the …

Community director and longstanding Bungie employee Brian Jarrard outlines the studio's ten year plan ahead

Australiaâ??s biggest independent developer will not close offices, says boss

Capcom has announced that Dead Rising: Case Zero has broken the record on Xbox Live for week one unit sales. The digital-only prologue to the upcoming Dead Rising 2 has seen more downloads since it launched last week than any other title posted on Microsoft’s online games service. Yesterday, Capcom …

Flash developers edge ever closer to iOS freedom, and the city likes it

Apple has extended an olive branch to its army of app developers by relaxing restrictions on how games are made. The mobile devices giant says it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” – on the proviso that the resulting apps do not download …