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Electronic Arts will not be creating any more MVP NCAA baseball games. That’s according to the Sports Business Journal in the US, which reports the publisher has declined to renew its two-year deal with the league. EA’s rival 2K Sports currently owns the exclusive third-party rights to Major League Baseball …

Sega has unveiled three new titles as part of a four game deal with Platinum Games, a Japanese studio made up of some of the personnel and talent behind hits like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil and Steel Battalion. The studio will produce Bayonetta on 360 and PS3, Mad World …

UK Prime Minister's suggested employment and training overhaul 'does little to help the UK games industry'

US television giant CBS Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire CNET Networks – the parent of specialist games media portal Gamespot – for $1.8 billion. The move was announced today by Leslie Moonves president and CEO of CBS Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make …

Laurent Fischer, managing director of marketing and PR at Nintendo of Europe, has joined the chorus of executives at core games firms which say they don’t like the name of ‘casual gaming’, yesterday telling MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz that the games audience consists of people who are either a gamer …

New industry charity Games Aid launches tomorrow (May 16th), while existing official charity, the Entertainment Software Charity (ESC), seems destined to disappear. Games Aid arrives without specific fiscal targets or a rigid manifesto, but with an over-arching desire to include everyone from developers to retailers – and even consumers. It …

Forthcoming episodic cartoon RPG built with GarageGames' tech

It’s been a busy year for Codemasters, but did it expect to win the MCV award for UK Development Team? We were hopeful but the competition was particularly tough this year. The MCV Awards are well known to all in our industry and the fact they’re voted for by our …

'Game developers have stories to tell too,' says institute

The official website of the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli video game has launched at www.system3.com. The new website contains artwork and models from the developer’s drawing boards, official tips from TV personality Tiff Needell, details on tracks, screenshots, videos, a developer’s journal, news, competitions, an extensive FAQ area and a …