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Having dropped off the radar for a few months, EA’s iPhone version of Mirror’s Edge has reportedly re-merged as an iPad-optimised title – with a an iPad-optimised price tag. TouchArcade reports that the game will carry a $14.99 price tag when it hits the App Store in conjunction with the …

BAFTA winners The Butterflyers are doing well, and they've only just graduated

Fresh details about the exciting looking Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions have been revealed, chief amongst them is a global release window – this September. The game will see the web-slinger deal with shifting between four different dimensions, two of which have been revealed. One sees the wall-crawler set in the traditional …

Early numbers from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain claim that the Japanese market suffered a slight annual decline for the fiscal year ending March 31st. However, the dip was lower than expected at just 0.6 per cent, with the total market value hitting YEN 549,060m. A sharp 6.6 per cent decline in …

Remedy Entertainment CEO adds his name to industry luminaries committee

Sega has confirmed a sequel to Conduit is in the works and will be released for the Wii this autumn. Conduit 2 is an FPS that picks up where the original left off and allows players to save humanity from an alien onslaught. New features include a four-player co-op mode, …

The studio behind the successful Battlefield franchise has said that it never wants to charge gamers for post-release map DLC. We don’t ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together,” DICE’s …

New studio Zinkyzonk to cross-pollenate Mafia Wars and Pet Society

The time for talking is over. Leading UK games retailer GAME is to, in the words of one of its leading execs, take on the supermarkets at their own game” by introducing a range of fresh food produce in some of its key UK stores. MCV can reveal that in-store …

Sega emerged victorious at last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Quiz, fending off competition from Gamespot and GAME. 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 Xbox 360 Elites and …