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Multiplay has announced the return of consumer specialist games event, M Festival. M Festival Spring will take place at Stoneleigh Park from 10th to 13th April 2009. The festival will return to Stoneleigh Park after last year’s successful August event. Visitors to M Festival will be able to interact with …

A number of readers who turn to our site alone for all their latest industry news rather than the print edition of MCV as well have this morning asked for more details on how we collated data and calculated the averages for our 2009 Games Industry Salary Survey. So, for …

Epic has revealed that Gears of War 2 has sold four million units worldwide in just two months. The figure means that the game has performed double that of the first title, which sold through two million copies in the same period. Global product manager Guy Welch told GameDaily: The …

Geomericsâ?? lighting middleware due early this year

EA studio's Brisbane office victim of The Dark Knight canning

UK independent calls for change in developer-publisher relationships

Distribution has gone through some drastic changes over the last six months, with the sad demise of EUK and Pinnacle. However, there are a number of new smaller distributors that offer their own unique service to a number of sectors in the marketplace. To begin with you need to look …

The British Board of Film Classification has given Sega’s upcoming Wii title MadWorld an 18 rating, clearing it to be released in the UK without any cuts being made to its content. The BBFC’s consumer advice bears the warning Contains very strong, stylised, bloody violence”, but reveals the game was …

HMV has been expanding into games over the past few years, which means we’ve also been recruiting more staff who can support our games offer. To sustain a specialist service you need specialist knowledge underpinned by a real passion for the product – so that’s our starting point for any …

The latest stats from NPD show that 2008 was a record year for the video games industry in North America – but signs that the worsening global economic climate is beginning to hit the games market are now materialising. 2008’s annual market value of $21bn was 19 per cent up …