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Warner Bros is being sued by the estate of JRR Tolkien over its use of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit IPs in a virtual slot machine game. The Tolkien estate has filed an $80m claim stating that the company is in violation of the licensing agreement that states …
Read More »Japan finally bans the R4 DS piracy device
A case of closing the stable doors after the horse has bolted? Kotaku reports via a translation from a Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that the country has finally banned the notorious R4 device, famed for its DS piracy uses. The R4 allows users to store and run …
Read More »Nude Prince Harry leads to UK block on iOS game Hotel Vegas
Tagplay’s latest iOS release Hotel Vegas won’t be available to consumers in the UK. And that’s because one of its many features is the inclusion of our very own Prince Harry. In the nude. Why, you might ask? Back in August the second in line to the British throne was …
Read More »UPDATED: Eurocom confirms job losses, blames steep console decline
UK developer Eurocom is to announce wide-ranging redundancies” today, a report has claimed. Games Industry believes that the studio is not set to close, though hasn’t got a figure on the exact number of losses. An announcement is expected shortly. Derby-based Eurocom is due to celebrate its 25th birthday next …
Read More »Crytek’s Warface hits 5m registered users
Free-to-play FPS Warface is seemingly doing the business for Crytek in Russia. The studio has announced that the game has now reached 5m registered players in the territory. The news comes in the same week as the shooter received the Best Online Game accolade in Russia’s Runet Awards. Reaching the …
Read More »OPINION: Kickstarter is making me feel Dizzy
I feel like I’ve been here before recently. And I still feel uneasy about it. The Oliver twins are important figures in the history of UK games development and I sincerely wish them the best in their new Dizzy Returns Kickstarter. They’re after a total of 350k for a reboot …
Read More »Future reports annual profit climb
Publisher and media group Future has reported normalised operating profit of 6.9m for the year ending September 30th. That’s a 68 per cent year-on-year increase. Group revenues were down three per cent, although Future attributes that to the restructure of tis US business. Net debt comes in at a lower …
Read More »21 year old lands FK Baku manager job on strength of Football Manager skills
Yes, it’s actually happened. ESPN reports that 21 year-old Vugar Huseynzade has successfully landed himself a job as the manager of Azerbaijan football outfit FK Baku’s reserves. Huseynzade, who was born in Azerbaijan and has studied in universities in Sweden and the US, was hired back in February in an …
Read More »GAME teams up with IGN for in-store events and online promotions
The UK’s leading games retailer GAME has announced a new partnership with IGN. The news was announced by Game Retail boss Martyn Gibbs at the retailer’s quarterly supplier conference today. The deal will see the pair work together on in-store promotional events and extensive GAME advertising across IGN’s network, that …
Read More »LGC: Did you miss anything?
There was plenty to learn at last night’s London Games Conference, and MCV is at hand to make sure you don’t miss a beat. 300 people were in the room for the sold-out event which included talks and presentations form some of the industry’s leading figures. Here’s a roundup of …
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