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NEW GAME BRAND Who is eligible for this award?Any company that has introduced a new game brand over the past 12 months that has made a significant impact at consumer level within the UK marketplace. How is this award won?MCV will take soundings from the industry and consider any direct …

Nolan Bushnell, the man behind Pong who is often credited as the original pioneer of arcade and home video gaming, will receive the Fellowship at this year’s Game British Academy Video Games Awards. The original Atari founder said: I am humbled to be selected for this honour from the British …

British developer Kuju has confirmed to MCV’s sister magazine Develop that it has made redundancies across a number of of its offices – but says that it remains optimistic about company growth in 2009. 10 positions at Zoe Mode are ‘at risk’ the firm said, with some other jobs lost …

Some of the biggest names in the casual games sector have told MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz that the casual games sector can not just survive the global recession, but actually benefit from it – though some aspects of the business may struggle to cope amidst the downturn. CasualGaming.biz spoke to …

IBM has become the latest in a line of technology companies being forced to lay off its employees by the credit crunch – but it is refusing to reveal how many have been made redundant. The company has reportedly laid off over 4,000 workers during the past week across its …

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The strength of the YEN has caused Nintendo to cut its operating income forecasts by 15.9 per cent. The news comes as Nintendo reports its Q3 financial results for the three months to the end of 2008, which saw net sales increase by 17 per cent to reach 1.5 trillion …

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The joint Administrators of Zavvi UK have today announced the immediate closure of a further 15 stores. The closures will lead to the redundancy of 295 employees, bringing the total number of jobs lost since the firm went into administration to 889. Administrator Ernst & Young closed 18 stores on …

Sony has posted some grim numbers for its gaming division for the three months ending December 31st 2008 that show falling sales for all three of its current PlayStation consoles. Sales at its games division hit YEN 393.8bn, down 32.2 per cent on the same period in 2007. Unit sales …