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Factor 5 is currently suffering severe financial issues”, which have led to a project being cancelled and employees advised to start seeking new employment, it has been claimed. An artist working for the development studio, Sam Baker, has described on his blog how his project was recently cancelled. He also …

Claims that Lair developerâ??s financial difficulties have lead to a project cancellation and possible job cuts

Support for Appleâ??s portable boosts 3D engineâ??s popularity

Splash Damage, the independent UK developer, has appointed Richard Ham as creative director.

Publisher EA is to give its NASCAR racing a brand a drastic makeover with the release next February of new Wii racer NASCAR Kart Racing. The firm recently admitted that it has struggled to establish its sports brands on Nintendo’s machine – and the targeted thinking behind this family-friendly reinvention …

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The extent to which the games industry is or is not ‘recession-proof’ will be revealed over time, but two leading industry analysts have warned that casual-centric games firms, and more specifically Nintendo, could be more severely affected than most. To read more, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.

Gaming giant Sega has become the latest established player from the games market to make a move into the casual gaming sector with the launch of its new Flash games portal PlaySega. For the complete story, head over to MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz.

National industry could slip to fifth in global rankings, falling two places in two years

GameStop has denied an MCV report that claimed the company was in the process of tabling a bid for Woolworths’ stores. The news comes after a highly-placed source informed MCV that the company was interested in buying around half of Woolworths’ oustanding 800 outlets from administrator Deloitte. If GameStop was …