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Consumers can now get a refund on any digital purchase made from Apple, no questions asked. Apple last month quietly altered its European iTunes terms and conditions to allow for the return of any digital purchase from iTunes or the App Store within 14 days of purchase. Until now all …
Read More »Valve’s former in-house economist could be the next Greek finance minister
Yanis Varoufakis used to track the sales of Valve’s in-game microtransactions. Now he might be heading to the Greek parliament. PCGamesN reports that Varoufakis, who used to be Valve’s in-house economist, is being tipped for the role of finance minister in the new Greek parliament. Greece last night elected the …
Read More »HTC makes eSports move, sponsors three professional teams
Smartphone manufacturer HTC has made a big move into the eSports sector by sponsorting no less than three professional teams. The Verge reports that the Chinese company has sealed sponsorship deals with Team Liquid, Cloud9 and Team SoloMid. Walter Wang and Thomas Chen have also been named as HTC’s new …
Read More »Tickets available for February 19th MCV’s Women of the Year awards
There are still tickets left to our Women of the Year awards, which take place on the afternoon of February 19th. Just over a week ago we revealed our Top 100 Women in Games– and has proven to be one of the most popular features we’ve published. Later next month, …
Read More »Guild Wars 2 expansion Heart of Thorns revealed
Over two years on from its release, MMO Guild Wars 2 is to receive its first expansion. Heart of Thorns will, according to ArenaNet, represent a re-envisioning of progression in an MMO” that offers a new Mastery system that offers new abilities for high level players, rather than simply upping …
Read More »Sega Europe’s Amanda Farr joins Xbox UK
Sega’s European marketing director Amanda Farr is moving to Xbox UK. Farr will be serving as head of Xbox content and services in the UK from March 2nd, and will be reporting to Xbox UK director of marketing Harvey Eagle. In this role she will be overseeing the management of …
Read More »VIDEO: Gearbox’s Homeworld remake has a release date
Homeworld Remastered Collection will be released next month. Gearbox’s HD remaster of its sci-fi classic will be released on PC on February 25th. The SKU includes both Homeworld and Homeworld 2, both in original and remastered forms. As well as its visual HD makeover, complete with brand new textures and …
Read More »Digital Far Cry 4 copies bought from key resellers being deleted from Uplay, report claims
Some users who purchased digital copies of Far Cry 4 from certain key resellers are logging in to Uplay to discover that their game has been deleted. Destructoid reports that a number of Reddit and Ubisoft forum users are complaining that the game has simply vanished from their Uplay PC …
Read More »Amazon claimed a quarter of all Christmas games, music and video sales
Kantar Worldpanel data has revealed the extent of Amazon’s dominance of the UK Christmas entertainment market. For the 12 weeks ending December 21st, one in four pounds spent on video games, physical music and video in the UK went to Amazon, which claimed a 25.6 per cent share of the …
Read More »Microsoft pondering gaming uses for HoloLens
Newly-unveiled technology could find its way to Xbox One and PC
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