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Representatives for The Beatles are in negotiations with the companies behind Rock Band and Guitar Hero with a view to licensing the Fab Four’s music. According to the Financial Times, Activision and MTV are both keen to create a Beatles-themed video game. The newspaper reports that the move ‘could pave …

In this in-depth Q&A we chat with Treyarchâ??s Noah Heller and Richard Farrelly about the studioâ??s work on the latest Call of Duty game, the WWII-set World at Warâ?¦

20 would-be developers from all walks of life make it to the shortlist for 'first large-scale user-driven design project'

The first Develop Pub Quiz will take place on the evening of Tuesday July 29th in Brighton, offering games developers based in the UK city – or those in town for the Develop conference which takes place that week – the chance to knock back a beer or two and …

News just in: Naomi Campbell has been sentenced to 200 hours community service after pleading guilty to flailing pathetically at two coppers in Heathrow airport. We’ll allow you to take a therapeutic Friday moment of Zen to picture her scrubbing graffiti in her dainty Jimmy Choos… Done? Good. If you …

Join us and find out at the Develop Pub Quiz on Tuesday July 29th in Brighton

Anonymous studio exec quoted as saying skills shortage is due to 'aging' industry

ZeroCrunch offers discussions, profiles, group calendars and video sharing for developers

It seems that Nintendo has decided to take action on the growing homebrew Wii community following news that its latest update to the Wii’s firmware (version 3.3) removes files associated with ‘unauthorised modifications’ from users’ machines, according to Joystiq . In addition, GoNintendo reports that it also seems that firmware …

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has called on Rockstar to remove a joke ‘paedophile’ website from GTA IV. As reported by MCV earlier this week, some fans of the game had become uncomfortable with a ‘cheat’, which let them log onto a banned in-game website …