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If MCV and The Guardian’s predictions are correct, then there will soon be universal BBFC ‘cinema-style’ ratings for all game releases. Do you think this is a good thing? Will it lead to less blame for the industry and a clearer classification system? Or will it be a time-consuming, needless …

Fresh planning restrictions, designed to stem local dominance of individual supermarkets, is to be unveiled this week, according to the Metro newspaper. The Competition Commission’s chairman, Peter Freeman, has been conducting a two-year inquiry into the grocery sector, which is reportedly worth 95 billion. Freeman is expected to set out …

Riccitiello admits to DICE audience that publisher fumbled integrating the likes of Bullfrog, Westwood and Origin

EA is to unveil a new development team focused on games for casual networks, reports MCV sister site Develop – head over there for the full story

New Blueprint studio taps into Facebook, MySpace wave

MCV genuinely hates to say we told you so today – as The Guardian’s front page excitedly reports that Gordon Brown is to unleash an aggressive ‘clampdown’ on the sale of violent video games. As predicted in this week’s MCV, Labour appears to have settled on a new ‘cinema style’ …

But 'cinema-style' ratings will strike balance between entertainment value and 'inherent dangers' of the web

Hosting company to provide special infrastructure support for MTS customers

British Quake Wars developer eyeing expansion

Intent Media, the publishing house behind MCV and Develop, is looking to bolster its editorial team with two US editors.