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The plummeting value of the rouble has led to tech giant Apple halting online sales of products to Russia and closing its Russian website. Apple had already last month upped its Russian prices by 25 per cent to try and bring prices in line with some other European regions. The …

Online retailer Ebuyer.com has announced its first TV sponsorship campaign with UK TV channel Dave. The deal – worth 2.8 million – is set to run from January 2015 for a year, with Ebuyer.com sponsoring the ‘Weekends on Dave’ slot. The campaign has been named ‘Big on Tech’ and features …

This year’s guide to the international games market is now available to read online for free. MCV has published a comprehensive – and free – booklet that acts as a guide to a number of territories around the world, from Italy to Sri Lanka. Around the World with MCV, in …

Developer CI Games has begun work on a sequel to Lords of the Fallen. "We’re now working on vision and concepts for Lords 2," executive producer Tomasz Gop told Euroogamer, without revealing any further details. The studio had previously revealed that it had shipped around 700,000 copies of the game, …

Having arrived on PC in June, Don Bradman Cricket is to try its hand at a next-gen console release. Publisher HES says it will release Big Ant Studios’ title on PS4 and Xbox One in February of next year. The game, which licenses the name of the famed Aussie batsman, …

The next game from the makers of Remember Me will arrive at the end of next month. Episode 1 of Life Is Strange, from French studio Dontnod, will be released on January 30th on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. It will cost 3.99 in the UK. If …

It’s almost time for Christmas, but before team MCV packs up and spends the next few weeks eating our body weight in mince pies, we have one last treat for you. It’s our bumper final issue of the year and it’s rammed with data, insight, interviews and analysis. We spoke …

A limited edition version of Sony’s PS4 saw the console increase sales by a factor of five week-on-week in Japan last week, Famitsu data reveals. Sales of the machine climbed from 13,040 to 64,017 units in the week ending December 14th following the launch of the Dragon Quest Metal Slime …

Everyplay's Oscar Clark ponders how the mobile market has matured and what devs can do to get their game noticed

Ever found yourself desperately wanting to be a farmer but without a tractor to drive or field to plough? Well, no, nor us, but regardless a taste of the good life is on the way with news that Mad Catz is making a range of dedicated hardware that will be …