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UK media group Future has announced the creation of two new senior roles within its games team. Former games publishing director James Binns is to become the head of Edge International and PC gaming. He will oversee the worldwide development of Edge-Online as well as PC print duo PC Gamer …

While Londoners Rocksteady pick up three prizes for Arkham Asylum

One of the most successful IP marriages of recent times continues to perform for Sega at retail with news that Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games has now sold over 6m copies worldwide. The game was first released in October and debuted at number five in the ELSPA …

Publisher 2K games has lifted the official lid on Firaxis Games’ Sid Meier’s Civilization V, a brand new entry in the popular PC strategy series. Civ V boasts a brand new game engine that brings with it a new combat system, deeper diplomatic relations and a redesigned hexagon tile mechanic …

But confusion ensues as Activision cites â??$100kâ?? prize

CEO Perlman declares: 'We have to get away from specialised, expensive hardware.'

Activisionâ??s antiheroic CEO goes on charm-offensive

Activision CEO declined the chance meet Will Wright and his seminal project before EA bought the studio

The $7m buyout in the mid-â??90s may have been â??insaneâ??, but Kotick confesses heâ??s had his own moments of madness

OnLive, which streams top-notch games direct to any device, including TV, has its share of skeptics. Since the service’s announcement at GDC last year, critics have cast doubt on its claims to eliminate latency. But at DICE yesterday (Thursday), OnLive’s president and CEO Steve Perlman showed a live, working demo …