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Ministers from Culture, Business and Health departments form after ELSPA meeting

Chinese developer partners with Mythic to deliver new Ultima MMO

The hotly-tipped APB by Scottish developer Realtime Worlds will arrive at retail in March, MCV can reveal. MCV understands that EA Partners is distributing and marketing the PC and Xbox 360 game, which has been branded by some commentators as the natural successor to GTA. However, insiders have scotched industry …

Two high-profile EA executives have departed from San Francisco dev Visceral Games to join a brand new Activision studio located nearby, according to reports. Staff at Visceral Games, the studio behind award-winning survival-horror title Dead Space, have been told that general manager Glen Schofield and COO Michael Condrey have departed. …

Jackâ??s Hoose Music providing soundscape to Denkiâ??s first XBLA game



The combined Eidos and Square Enix has named the team staffing its European office. MCV can reveal that former Square exec Doug Bone becomes sales director, with Eidos’ Jon Brooke named marketing director. Larry Sparks will continue as VP of brand, responsible for Square Enix’s Japanese titles. Eidos brand responsibilities …

Speculation: Activision Bay Area studio likely to be working on a new James Bond title



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Icon Games goes solo due to 'inability of traditional publishers to make quick decisions'

Grand Theft Auto Episodes From Liberty City will hit retail shelves on Thursday October 29th. The game combines the two downloadable episodes The Lost and The Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony into one box, and does not require a copy of GTA IV to run. It will also …