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Milton Keynes, UK outfit integrates teams to 'remain competitive'

Praise and scorn aplenty as studios react to Appleâ??s new gadget

Europe’s biggest game industry event has formed an official partnership with pivotal trade publications MCV and Develop. Gamescom will now have both powerful industry publications as its media partners, bolstering the event’s international ambitions. "This agreement with MCV and Develop underlines the wide appeal of Gamescom to the international business …

Key European event partners with leading trade titles as early registration kicks off

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is now available to view online and download now. Last night, Apple finally unveiled the much rumoured iPad and pledged that gaming will be a key element in its proposition, but will the device benefit retailers? MCV is inviting retailers to comment on this …

Now the long wait is at last over, the tech industry has been keen to share their impressions of Apple’s smartphone-netbook stopgap, the iPad – and the reactions paint a very mixed picture. Some foresee big things for iPad, with the extra screen space and five-point mutli-touch opening up a …

Monte Cristo admits subscriber base was too slight

THQ’s upcoming FPS Metro 2033 will be released on in the UK on March 19th. The Xbox 360 and PC game pulls players into a post-apocalyptic dystopia where the survivors of a nuclear holocaust are forced to live and travel in the disused tunnels of the Metro system. Metro 2033 …

A look how middleware can get AI back on the right track

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is now available to view online and download now. For the definitive guide to some of the hottest games hitting the High Street, click here to access the RetailBiz Previews section. This week, we take a look at Disney’s The Princess And The Frog, …