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The controversy surrounding the collapse GAME-owner OpCapita’s now-defunct retailer Comet has erupted once again. The Financial Times reports that OpCapita’s acquisition vehicle HAL will receive in the region of 70m as a result of Comet’s administration and subsequent liquidation – a fact that if true is likely to once again …
Read More »Titanfall ‘will be a big, big system seller for Xbox One’
Microsoft VP Phil Harrison has tipped Titanfall to be Xbox One’s killer app. He told MCV that Xbox One is beating its rivals when it comes to games, calling out the reception Titanfall received at E3. The EA-published game is exclusive to Xbox One and 360 (there is also a …
Read More »Rocksmith 2014 price, release date for India announced
Rocksmith 2014, the latest installment of Ubisoft’s guitar learning game, will release later this month, distributor E-xpress Interactive announced today. The game will be available in two editions. The Cable Edition will include the game and a cable to connect your guitar to your PC or console. This edition is …
Read More »Video: Valve’s Steam Controller in action
Dual-trackpads prove quite flexible across genres
Read More »Dead Rising 3 banned in Germany, will miss Xbox One launch
The notoriously strict German ratings board has banned Capcom’s Dead Rising 3. The move seriously dents Microsoft’s Xbox One launch plans in the country, robbing it of a key exclusive title. It’s not really a surprise, however, seeing as the first two games suffered a similar fate. "Dead Rising 3 …
Read More »PS4 won’t support chat on Bluetooth headsets at launch
Sony has confirmed that PS4 will offer limited headset chat compatibility at launch. Game Informer has learnt that the console will not support chat functionality with Bluetooth headsets. That includes Sony’s own Pulse range of headsets. A future update will add support for chat over Bluetooth, as well as chat …
Read More »MCV Pacific Weekly Wrap-Up
David Wildgoose joins MCV Pacific, we look back at the EB EXPO 2013, and musical chairs occur in Australian jobs. Here’s a roundup of the biggest news this week on MCVuk.com’s sister site MCV Pacific: David Wildgoose joins MCV Pacific as its first full time editorial employee, look after the …
Read More »Uproar over sexualised female characters in Warface caught Crytek by surprise
F2P Summit: Games GM Nick-Button Brown speaks frankly about depiction of women in FPS
Read More »UPDATED: Forced student labour used to build PS4s at Foxconn – report
It has been alleged that controversial Chinese manufacturer Foxconn has been using forced labour as part of its PS4 manufacturing operation. GamesInAisa cites reports emerging in China claiming that thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s …
Read More »EA pondered THQ acquisition, is now being sued over UFC deal
Ill-fated publisher THQ was once the target for a possible acquisition at the hands of EA, court documents have revealed. As spotted by Videogamer, the papers(as found by Polygon) relating to THQ’s now attempted suing of EA over its UFC rights purchase say that THQ first started exploring the possibility …
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