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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 – …

Nokia says testing has added "a couple of weeks" to deployment

SPECIAL REPORT: Competition between Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo pushes industry forward, say devs

Kawanishi shuffled out over disagreement, says rumour mill

Next-Gen reports that global phone giant Nokia has delayed the launch of its new N-Gage mobile games service from this month until later in the year. Rather than focusing on a dedicated gaming handset, as was the case with the first N-Gage, this time round N-Gage will represent a dedicated …

MCV sister site Develop reports that Rockstar, no stranger to controversy, has once again hit the internet headlines, this time regarding the credits in Manhunt 2. In a blog post by Jurie Horneman, previously the game’s producer, it has been revealed that the instruction manual of the recently-released US version …