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Toy specialist Hasbro has struck a major licensing deal with Electronic Arts – further verifying MCV’s recent exclusive that the kids’ firm is set to muscle in on the video games space. The partnership grants EA exclusive global rights to create games based on Hasbro IP including Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, …

Famed for its cinematic interpretations of World War II, Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat, which as the title suggests abandons the 1940’s in favour of contemporary battling, will hit UK and European retail on November 9th, Eurogamer reports . The news apparently emerged a press event earlier this …

German middleware firm opens office in Austin, Texas

Compression middleware aims to help cut manufacturing costs

The Leicester-based firm is being headed up by Jonathan Hales as managing director. He brings with him seven years experience from Codemasters where he was most recently VP and general manager of Northern Region Europe. Founded last year by German games industry veterans Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, Kalyso Media …

We sit down with Autodesk's Michel Kripalani and Curtis Garton to find out more about the recently announced new versions of the company's softwareâ?¦

VP Jamie MacDonald joined by SingStar guru Paulina Bozek and Home director Peter Edward

SIGGRAPH 07: Low cost sculpting/modelling hybrid tool majors in displacement painting

Chris Satchell keynote and first day XNA sessions to be available for free

Following GAME’s acquisition of rival UK High Street games retailer Gamestation in May, the Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to refer the buyout to the Competitions Commission. John Fingleton, chief executive of the OFT, stated: This merger involves the loss of competition between two parties who, …