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Assassin’s Creed II has been awarded a Guinness World Record – for the most number of magazine covers scored by a single game. According to publisher Ubisoft, and verified by Guinness itself, the game was used as the lead story in 127 different publications in 32 countries, between April 2009 …

Scaleform GFx bundled free in UE3, used in Gears 3

Heavy Rain star Pascal Langdale talks motion capture and the future of gaming

The Hut Group has secured 14 million in investment, the firm has announced. The money will be used to fund acquisitions and help the online retailer recruit between 100-150 new members of staff. The fundraising was completed by a selection of blue-chip investors including VC firm Balderton Capital – which …

Israeli group hires key talent and offers motion control outsource services

Former EA man John Burns has become the new VP and GM of Atari Europe. Burns, previously senior director of European online publishing for Electronic Arts, will be responsible for all the commercial efforts of the publisher in Europe. Atari has transformed itself into an online-centric business in recent years …

InstantAction CEO and Develop Conference keynote Louis Castle told us about the digital distribution revolution.

Surging sales of high-definition Blu-ray discs have seen the value of the UK home video market surge by 10 per cent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2010. March growth is up by 31 per cent year-on-year. In the period Blu-ray sales hit 2.7m units, a 69 per cent annual …

Just moments ago MCV published the following introduction to a story: That Japanese publishing giant Capcom can criticise one of its own games for ‘feeling too Japanese’ is a perfect example of the increasingly Westward-facing outlook gripping the modern console industry.” Now let’s take that, make a few tweaks and …

The video games press can now register for this year’s Gamescom, Koelnmesse has confirmed. Journalists just need to click here to apply. All persons able to demonstrate their status as a full-time journaliss will be granted press accreditation, and as usual, the UK media are encourage to attend. Due to …