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A whopping 1,600 piece LEGO Minecraft set is hitting stores this summer. FamilyGamerTV has revealed that the huge Village set is incoming this June. This follows LEGO unveiling the already-large Minecraft Fortress as New York Toy Fair earlier this year. Village comes with a number of MInecraft figures, including Steve, …

The game heads of two of the UK’s largest retailers have joined MCV’s Retail Advisory Board. Amazon’s software and video games category leader Russell Jones (pictured, right) has come on board, alongside Tesco senior buying manager Alison Mair (pictured, far right). Mair replaces buying manager Jon Hayes, who moved to …

Retailer GAME expects its next Insomnia festival – which will include the GAMEFest expo – to be the UK’s most popular gaming event this year. The firm targets a record number of attendees over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and says it will be investing heavily to ensure it hits …

Retail’s hope of integrating the digital games market into its pre-owned model looks less likely than ever. There have been various effort and legal attempts to enforce the allowed trade-in and resale of digital games over the years, but GameSpot reports that GameStop COO Tony Bartel has said at the …

The workaround that lets Oculus Rift games run on HTC Vive may be in danger. Yesterday it emerged that a third party program released on Github allows any Oculus Rift title to be played on the HTC Vive headset. The first release allows titles such as Lucky’s Tale and Dreamdeck …

Ubisoft was the hero on the High Street last month, with The Division and Far Cry Primal topping the UK charts. The Division was by far and away the biggest seller of the month, shifting almost half a million physical copies during the period. 1.72m boxed games were sold during …

There will be a Ghostbusters game for consoles and PC releasing around the same time as the upcoming film. However, while Amy Pascal and Ivan Reitman’s movie will feature four female ‘busters, Activision’s game will not follow suit. Nor will it feature the original cast from the 1984 film. In …

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Breathe a sigh of relief – gamers who feared they may have lost their characters in The Division have been told their data is safe. Following the release of the game’s 1.1 patch this week some players were aghast to discover that their characters had vanished. However, the cause has …