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Battlefield 3, Mountain Dew and InComm Europe are sponsoring the 2011 MCV Awards. The new EA game has teamed up with this year’s event as Trade Launch Partner. Card manufacturers InComm Europe and Britvic drink Mountain Dew have joined as Table Gift Partners. This is a great opportunity to support …

Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that its still unofficial and unnamed ‘next generation MMO’ will be based around completely original IP. He also discussed ‘Project Titan’, and confirmed that the game would be based around completely original IP. Internally we think of that as a next generation MMO," …

The powerhouse Transformers IP will next year get a brand new MMO following an agreement between casual behemoth Jagex and rights holder Hasbro. The game has been pencilled in for a 2012 release in Europe, North America, Latin America, New Zealand and Australia. Transformers is one of the most iconic …

Studio opens online games division, Insomniac Click

Zynga has begun a new charity initiative to help children affected by the devastating tsunami that has swept across Japan. The firm is introducing donation options within games such as CityVille, FarmVille, Zynga Poker, FrontierVille and Words with Friends. These games will have donation buttons appear as people purchase Facebook …

'We want to be as global as we possibly can,' says firm's top engineers

Platform holder promises renewed focus on PC gaming

Game Investor Consulting's Rick Gibson on why constant click-reading won't breed innovation

Game Investor Consulting's Rick Gibson on why constant click-reading won't breed innovation

UK studio Rebellion has become the latest studio to tackle the lucrative social games business, by setting up an internal division to build product for various platforms such as Facebook. The move comes after the Oxford-based developer launched the beta of its free-to-play Facebook game, Evil Genius. Rebellion will still …