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Disney Interactive has revealed the first game put together by its UK-based racing studio Black Rock: an off-road racer called Pure. It’s the first game made by the team since it was acquired from Climax in September 2006. To read the full story, head over to MCV’s sister site Develop.

Emergent's engine bolstered with new middleware links

Former EA man Bradley Crooks joins Battalion Wars studio based in heart of UK capital

Whatâ??s black and chrome, 135 grams light and arguably the coolest gadget around? We gets to grips with development on Appleâ??s latest mini marvel, the iPhoneâ?¦

Version 1.5 adds Torque Game Builder functionality

Epic's engine to licensed for stadium design in the US

This month: Epic supports innovative architecture project, Illuminate joins the IPP and Red Mile choose UE3 for Sin City gameâ?¦

Radiosity tech finished in time for GDC08 showing

PC gaming is in a state of ‘disarray’ according to Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski, with the studio set to concentrate on producing console titles. Speaking to MTV, Bleszinski said: I think people would rather make a game that sells 4.5 million copies than a million and Gears is at 4.5 million …

Lineage and Tabula Rasa were the key drivers in NCsoft’s full-year financials, which saw an overall sales drop of three per cent, but an operating profit, pre-tax profit and net profit of 14 per cent, 24 per cent and 18 per cent respectively. Fourth quarter consolidated net sales stand at …