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The end comes for Comet as all stores prepare to close doors tomorrow

Administrator Deloitte has confirmed that all remaining Comet stores will close their doors tomorrow (December 18th). Many closed for good over the weekend. The move will result in the loss of some 6,600 jobs just days before Christmas. 2.1m in holiday and back pay will be paid to employees. It …

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UK studio Eurocom closed after 25 years

Eurocom, the British developer behind the latest James Bond game, has gone into administration. The developer, based in Derby, made150 redundancies last monthfollowing a number of cancelled console projects. Its remaining 50 staff were told this morning that they had been laid off. Eurocom issued a statement toEurogamerthis afternoon: Today …

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Hawken gets closed beta date

Free-to-play FPS mech title Hawken has had its beta dated by new publisher Meteor Entertainment. Hawken is marketing itself as the first in a new generation of free-to-play titles boasting triple-A production quality. The Adhesive-developed title will enter closed beta on October 26th. It will run until October 29th. The …

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THQ closes its Asia Pacific division

News has just come through that today the THQ Asia-Pacific offices in Melbourne are scheduled to be closed down. The shut down will occur in the next few months, as THQ’s sales and distribution business is handed over to a local sub-distributor. This is an ongoing trend in Australia now, …

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UPDATED: PopCap Dublin closes its doors; 96 jobs lost

PopCap Dublin has been closed by parent company EA. The news comes after management admitted last month that 50 jobs had been lost from PopCap’s Seattle office and an unspecified number shaved from its Irish operations. The company then went on to say that it had entered into an exploratory …

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UPDATED: Sony’s Studio Liverpool closes its doors; Campus survives

One of the key studios from PlayStation’s rich history has today ceased operations. Sony has confirmed to MCV that Sony Liverpool is no more, with its resources instead being put into projects at other studios. It’s not yet known how many jobs have been lost. The studio has been the …

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Ouya Kickstarter closes on $8,596,475, attracts 12 $10k pledges

Having embarked on its Kickstarter journey with a lofty target of $950k, Ouya Kickstarter dream has reached a spectacular conclusion. Having gone live on July 10th, the project closed last night with total funding of $8,596,475 from 63,416 backers. In addition, Kickstarter has revealed that 12 backers pledged a total …

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Nintendo closes Project Sora

Kid Icarus: Uprising developer Project Sora has been closed, it has been revealed. The studio’s homepage confirms that it was dissolved on June 30th with the website itself going offline on July 31st,CVG reports. Project Sora was a subsidiary of Nintendo and a division of Masahiro Sakurai’s Sora Limited. It …

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GAME Australia stores to close for good on Sunday

PriceWaterhouseCoopers has today confirmed to MCV that on Sunday the remaining GAME stores will close their doors for the last time. On 19th June, PwC had announced that the remaining stores wereslated to close, however until now no date had been set. The following day, on 20th June, PwC confirmed …

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Mojang’s Scrolls approaching closed alpha stage

Minecraft developer Mojang has revealed that its next game, Scrolls, is close to entering the closed alpha stage. We are rapidly approaching the closed alpha of Scrolls,” the game’s official blog stated. Although this alpha version will be far from a feature complete version of the game, it will include …

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