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German AI middleware firm expands business on home soil and in France

What follows is 600 (yes, all the red numbers really add up to 600) games, consoles, companies and deals that have shaped the industry throughout the last 12 years… HIGH-PROFILE BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES Over the last 12 years, the games industry’s leading businesses have danced around like a game …

Rising Star Games has announced it will be publishing Deadly Premonition on the Xbox 360 in PAL territories. The game will be released in the UK this autumn and follows an FBI agent, who must fend off supernatural creatures while investigating the brutal murder of a little girl. Deadly Premonition …

Buyers of Activision’s Wii remake of Goldeneye 007 will have the chance to grab a golden joystick of their own when it hits shelves later this year. The Goldeneye 007 Classic Edition comes bundled with a copy of the game and a gold Classic Controller Pro, as inspired by 1974 …

UK headquartered outfit sets out plan to grow overseas office

UK developer Lionhead may be inundated with speculation regarding a certain boy-talking Kinect game, but Peter Molyneux reckons the third Fable game will generate the biggest buzz come October. The development maestro has told MCV he expects Fable III to grow into the biggest selling game of the series so …

Scott Steinberg speaks to industry luminaries to find out why

Sports Interactive’s studio director Miles Jacobson has released the first details about Football Manager 2011, which will be out some time before Christmas. The game includes a new contract negotiation system. Agents have been expanded on and now boast lots of different agent types who negotiate contracts in different ways. …

Latest edition has been mailed to subscribers and is now available to read online

It’s been a long time coming, but the UK will finally get a games download chart later this year, MCV can reveal. ELSPA has been hard at work behind the scenes over the last 12 months convincing publishers to share data and bring clarity to the scope of PC downloads. …