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Second Kyoto office to focus on software and hardware development

New Montreal-based dev studio to work on multiplatform casual titles leading with the upcoming QuantZ

Metal Gear Solid creator to debut at March event, discussing 'how to make the impossible possible'

Shopto.net has announced that it will pay customers 3 if it fails to deliver a pre-ordered game on its day of release. The guarantee applies to any customer who orders a product by 12 PM two days before it is due out, with the full details available on the firm’s …

When long-time Sonic producer Yuji Naka left Sega in 2006 to found Prope, many wondered quite what he'd be working on. Develop caught up with him at an event to promote the company's first title, Let's Tap! - billed as the first game to be playable without touching a controller...

The retail figures for January are in and paint a mixed picture, with the good news of an overall like-for-like increase of 1.1 per cent in sales muddied by news that non-food sales slipped 1.6 per cent. Retail Week reports that BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor numbers showed a total sales …

Namco Bandai has confirmed that it has taken back Splatterhouse from Californian studio Bottlerocket. To read more, click here to head over to MCV’s sister mag Develop.

Have you lobbied for an MCV Award yet? If not, you’ve got just under a week to let us know why you or your company should be considered for a finalist spot in this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The MCV Awards take place at The Brewery, London on Thursday …

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has been awarded the Writers Guild of America’s Videogame Writing prize. The game beat Bethesda’s Fallout 3, EA’s Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 and Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider Underworld to get the prize. Develop has the full story – click here.

Aside from Epic’s recent news about its upcoming third update for Gears of War 2, all is relatively quiet in the Gears of Wars universe – but an admission from one of the game’s key writers suggests that Epic and Microsoft have plenty of Gears surprises on the way. IGN …