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Bungie has been stealing headlines across the games media thanks to its recent divestment from Microsoft. We caught up with audio director Marty Oâ??Donnell at the recent Video Games Live concert to discuss the deal and his thoughts on game audioâ?¦

Retail’s refusal to break the official street date of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 has left Konami UK general manager Pete Stone almost as impressed as the game’s debut at number one in the software chart. Last year, retailers such as Woolworths and Gamestation started selling the game’s predecessor, Pro Evolution …

Government meets with Game Developers' Association of Australia and promises to review tax credits

Popular Aardman character and TV star Shaun the Sheep is to star in his own video game, MCV can reveal. D3Publisher of Europe has snapped up the licence to the kids’ television series, which is a spin-off from the Wallace and Gromit property that made Aardman a world famous animation …

SCE UK has snapped up two new national account managers. Sukhi Gidda joins the team with a string of industry jobs behind him, making the move to SCE directly from Buena Vista Games, where he spent over two years working on numerous titles such as Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, …

MCV understands that UK publisher Eidos has secured the video game rights to leading BBC soap opera Eastenders. The title is reportedly being handled by Eidos’ casual games division, which typically works on both DS and mobile phone titles. Though no details are yet known about the forthcoming title, the …

Following the news that the recently released North American PSP version of Manhunt 2 has been hacked to enable access to some of the violent content that had been removed from the game, US ratings board the ESRB has defended its decision to grant the game a Mature rating. "Our …

Sparkplay Media to finish work on 3D MMO Earth Eternal for 2008

Cecil, Braben and Ninja Theoryâ??s Midgley set to attend

Tandem Events, organiser of the upcoming Games Marketing Forum, has announced that Bath Spa University’s Dr James Newman will be the keynote speaker at the event that is to take place at London’s Cumberland Hotel on Thursday November 22nd. His keynote speech will be entitled ‘Playing with video games – …