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I’ve been given the MCV golden chalice to step in as editor in these final days before Christmas, and I guess I should glance over my shoulder into the past on the eve of a new decade, and try to predict the future. It’s the dawn of 2010, so I …

Play.com will sell video game downloads in the near future, the firm has told MCV. The online retail giant already offers music downloads, and will add books, movies and games to that line-up – but the company wouldn’t give a launch date for the new service. Downloads will be the …

We speak to the director and developer of one of our favorite iPhone games, Space Invaders Infinity Gene

In the second part of our roundtable with the UK video game industry’s leading marketers, we discuss falling print readership, the increase in cinema-goers, social networks and if marketing has a bigger impact on sales than review scores… How has the decline in print media affected your advertising decisions? Alex …

Cutting-edge technology firm establishes British base - former EA Criterion man Dunnet in as studio head

Deal between companies will expand strategy publisherâ??s portfolio of titles

Blitz Games co-founder discusses his love for Nintendoâ??s racing series

Toy maker Hasbro is to sue publisher Atari following claims that the video game company violated its licensing agreement for Hasbro’s Dungeons & Dragons game series. Hasbro said Atari may have violated its licensing agreement when it sold its European business distribution arm to Japanese game maker Namco Bandi in …

Sales for the UK video games software market grew by 13 per cent this week to 3.4 million units, driving the sector’s value up by 11 per cent to 77.3 million. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 totted up a fifth consecutive week at the top of the charts, unaffected …

Microsoft has invested significant money and time to ensure its upcoming motion controller Natal is as accomplished as its host console, yet suspected lag issues” may curb the peripheral’s chances of success. That was the view offered by Traveller’s Tales company director Jon Burton, who told Develop that his own …