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The second open letter of the day urging the government to reconsider the cause for tax breaks for the UK games industry follows. This time Tiga CEO Dr Richard Wilson addresses Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Culture Lord Mandelson.

Development trade association urges studios to lobby Government

Capcom’s highly anticipated Resident Evil 5 is set for release this Friday (March 13th), and Gamestation has announced it will be opening its stores at midnight in celebration. Along with copies of the new game, Gamestation will be selling a variety of other merchandise, including T-shirts, hoodies, thermal mug holders …

Disney has this morning taken the official wraps off the new game developed by its UK studio Black Rock, calling Split/Second the ‘holy grail’ of new IP – and telling MCV’s sister magazine Develop that it thinks the title will revitalise the racing genre. The Brighton-made game is set in …

Middleware provider outlines offering at San Francisco event

Strauss Zelnick, the chairman of US publisher Take 2, has stated that whilst pleased that the publisher’s latest financial results were better than expected , he was not pleased to see losses on the up in Q1. Take 2’s first quarter results were somewhat better than the initial guidance we …

Take 2 CEO Ben Feder has stated that the current phase of the hardware cycle means that his firm’s catalogue titles are all the more important – and next week’s release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars marks the beginning of the onslaught. The highest profile title is 2K Games’ …

Deadline for session proposals draws near

Black Rock hopes its UK-developed racer Split/Second will revitalise the genre

Former Radical chief hired as studio reorganises workforce