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Valve explains its supple royalty system, and examines the platform's astounding growth
Read More »Valve on Steam
The astoundingly popular digital platform has revolutionised the PC industry, but how? And what next?
Read More »Duke Nukem dev set for BAFTA
Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford – the man in charge of the upcoming, long-delayed Duke Nukem Forever – will be taking questions at a special event next week. The Q/A session will be hosted by GameSpot’s Johnny Chiodini on Wednesday, May 11th at the BAFTA HQ. The session will focus …
Read More »SWTOR removed from EA release schedule
As of last night, Star Wars: The Old Republic no longer appears in EA’s release schedule. Earlier this year MCV revealed that EA was targeting a September 2011 release for the game. The story was greeted with disdain and abuse from a large contingent of BioWare’s fanbase in the MCV …
Read More »What app programming language is right for you?
[Sponsored Feature] Intel looks at the tools on offer
Read More »Zynga UK is born
Social games giant Zynga has made its first acquisition of a UK development outfit. Wonderland Software, creator of iPhone title GodFinger, is to be renamed Zynga Mobile UK. Wonderland Software staff will now be working for Zynga, while the studio’s former CEO – Matthew Wiggins – takes the role of …
Read More »Turbine takes control of LOTRO
Developer Turbine will assume full control of MMO title The Lord of the Rings Online in Europe from June 1st, merging the US and European servers in the process. Until now Codemasters has handled the game in Europe. Current players will need to migrate their Codemasters accounts to the new …
Read More »OPINION: Letting off Steam
Committed readers of MCV will know that the contrast between last week’s cover stories and this week’s couldn’t be starker. But such is the diversity of games now that one week we might be talking analytics and digital downloads, the next hoary but no less important topics like supermarkets and …
Read More »Tegra tech ‘will drive tablet gaming forward’
Playbox and Nvidia talk up the fortunes of Android tablet projects
Read More »GAME selling Portal 2 today
UK retailer GAME has put the PC version of EA-published Valve title Portal 2 on sale today, a day ahead of its official release. The game was released digitally via Steam yesterday, though the official release date for the boxed versions is tomorrow. "We had a conversation with EA yesterday …
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