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After six months of press, lobbying and reports, Games Up? has almost run its intended course.

I am writing this article on an excellent, professional word processing software application that was not developed by a corporation, but by a group of individuals motivated to create a better word processor than Microsoft Word.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed that DJ Hero, a dance-music themed take on the Guitar Hero formula, is in development and will be out later this year. The game will come bundled with a record-deck peripheral and will more likely than not be released on a wide range …

Special prices for tickets open to those in the UK's creative industries

Developâ??s columnist blasts the controversial review scores website

Boost for job seekers as event brings together digital media recruiters

THQ is restructuring its mobile division to focus on high-end games for iPhone, N-Gage, PSP and DS, and it seems that this has seen 75 per cent of the THQ Wireless workforce across three offices in the US and Europe made redundant, equivalent to about a hundred people. MCV’s sister …

Jagex has appointed Mark Gerhard as its new CEO, effective from February 2nd. Gerhard joined the firm in 2008 as its chief technology officer. He was previously at GTECH, where he was principle security architect for the National Lottery. To read the story in full, head over the MCV’s sister …

Inaugural Vancouver event to take place in May

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