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Crytek flaunts its â??next-gen readyâ? game engine

Some 230 key execs from the European games industry will attend a sold-out London Games Conference later this month. Only limited sponsorship and special case attendance slots remain open for the afternoon and evening event, which takes place at BAFTA, Piccadilly on Tuesday October 27th. The London Games Conference is …

British grocery giant Tesco has released an iPhone App that lets users pinpoint where certain goods can be found within its fleet of stores. The free App asks users to type in a product name into their iPhone, to which the App returns a list of nearby stores stocking the …

Electronic Arts maintained a generous chunk of market share in the third quarter of the year, MCV-published data can reveal. The quarterly ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack data this week shows shows that the publisher accounted for over 17 per cent of games sales in unit terms from July to September – and over …

Download model may paint a positive template for the future

Click here to browse through the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, home to MCV’s in-depth guide to some of the biggest titles due to hit shelves over the next month. This week, we take a look at Activision Blizzard’s DJ Hero, the upcoming scratch-‘em-up that stands to revolutionise and expand the …

Out-of-pocket developers must deal with company's administrators, Jim Scott reveals

For Part Two of our Charlie Brooker interview, click here. For Part Three of our Charlie Brooker interview, click here. In Part One of our three part interview, we discuss what Brooker makes of the criticism of the show and find out that gaming hasn’t always been seen as something …

In the biggest offensive ever mounted against the piracy-enabling R4 Flash card device, Nintendo and Capcom have joined forces with 53 other unspecified games publishers to file a lawsuit against four retailers who currently sell the device. Gamasutra reports that the joint action follows moves earlier this year under the …

Ex-Amazon finance director John Pollard has launched his own online video game retail website. According to the Lancashire Telegraph, Playgamesuk.com is based in Preston Road in Ribchester and Pollard hopes to double his company’s 1 million turnover. They basically sold games they no longer wanted and it proved so popular …