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Talks up new status as UE3 licensee and use of BigWorld MMO tech

Hilary Clinton’s barnstorming comeback in last night’s US Democratic Primary elections just go to show that people will never give up on a job they feel should be theirs. Gladly, if you’re looking for your dream role in the games industry, no-one’s asking you to campaign around the country to …

In the first of a new monthly series of articles profiling, celebrating and analysing some of the best and biggest British-made IPs, we examine the megahit that is Grand Theft Autoâ?¦

Following the launch last year of the Games Media Awards, Intent Media has hired its first in-house events manager. Shelley Dowsett joins from leading conference and exhibitions company Forum Events. She will be responsible for the Games Media Awards 2008, plus a growing portfolio which already includes the MCV Industry …

There have been a lot of reports in the press about DSGi struggling – how do you respond to these claims? We are an international business. Since the late ‘90s the company has become less UK-centric, and is focused right across the international scene. We’ve got strategies to open stores …

Ten million. It’s not a figure to be sniffed at. Indeed, it’s near-impossible to think of many things that, if you owned ten million of them, you wouldn’t consider ‘enough’. Naked pictures of Lindsey Lohan, perhaps. But that’s about it. Xbox Live’s ten million subscribers still haven’t sated Microsoft’s desire …

SG Lab title to be promoted on Tokyo Municipal home page

New indie studio working with Japanese publisher

Showtime TV drama to get game treatment

MCV has it on very good authority that Microsoft is planning an Xbox 360 price cut later this month, which will allow its lower-spec Arcade model to compete with Nintendo’s Wii on price. In what is being seen as a significant move to attract the family market, that would mean …