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2009 is nearly at an end and with it comes the end of the games industry’s most successful ever decade. While each year brings with it a myriad of titles to be won for bragging rights, the Christmas Number One crown remains one of the most coveted. So what better …

Is believable dynamic text-to-speech at runtime a pipe dream, or are we nearer than we think?

UK newspaper The Guardian has today outlined its plans to continue covering games – despite the closure of its weekly Technology supplement.

 Games content at the paper will now move to its daily weekday G2 supplement – from Thursday, January 7th there will be weekly print reviews in G2, as …

In the first of a series of features looking back on the last ten years in the video games industry, Michael French raids the MCV archives to chronicle the arrival of the ‘Noughties’… Head over to the features section for more.

Report says up to 100 staff have gone from casual games developer - including COO Don Ryan

Expansive casual games provider Oberon Media has been hit with what is speculated to be a large number of layoffs, with former COO Don Ryan having confirmed his departure and that he intends to open his own New York based venture. The full story is over at CasualGaming.biz.

There’s been no Rage Against The Machine-style upset in the video game charts, as Modern Warfare 2 easily takes 2009’s Christmas No. 1 spot in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack Top 40. The record-breaking FPSwas the runaway favourite to take the Christmas crown, and betting agency Paddy Power even started paying out …

To celebrate our final issue of 2009 Activision UK boss Andrew Brown has stepped up to the plate as one-off guest editor of MCV magazine. The past ten years have been exciting, aspirational – and surprising,” he writes in our blog section. Other surprises that this decade has brought? The …

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 …