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Publisher Take-Two has slammed Target and Kmart’s decision to pull GTA V from its shelves. The two Australian retailers took the game off its shelves last week due to consumer pressure regarding the game’s content. "It’s one thing for someone to not want to buy a piece of content, which …

With the holiday season just around the corner, MCV looks at the best stocking-sized gifts to make gamers’ Christmas wishes come true Christmas: the season for socks, excessive consumption and – of course – giving gifts. With a slew of new titles hitting shelves throughout November, gamers are set to …

Intel Developer Blog: Why more developers are turning to HTML5 when porting their games

The MCV Awards return on Thursday, April 16th. But the journey towards a prize starts with making your achievements known to us. Here, we detail the criteria for each accolade and explain how you can get involved. And read carefully – we’ve changed a number of categories, how they are …

New study will explore gender balance of games industry

Gaming is now a fashion in its own right. T-shirts, cufflinks, lamps and even toasters – the possibilities are endless for products branded with and inspired by titles. And the hunger for a wider range of spin-off merch only continues to grow. In the last five years the world of …

Sony are selling the super limited edition grey PS4 in the UK today… for just 19.94. 19.94… 1994… 20 years of PlayStation? Get it? Of course you do. But there are only 94 consoles available and some gamers were queuing up from last night to snap up the rare item, …

Garry’s Mod and Rust developer Facepunch Studios has revealed its next effort, Before – a survival game set in the stone age. The game hasn’t received a release date yet, but it’s in development for Windows, Mac and Linux. Going off the developer’s previous releases, it will almost assuredly launch …

DayZ creator Dean Hall has opened his own development house in Duedin, New Zealand – and the new studio is hiring. Hall announced back in February of this year that he intended to move on from Bohemia Interactive and DayZ’s development entirely. Hall’s stated mission at the time was to …

The recently announced update to classic adventure series King’s Quest will arrive on multiple platforms next year, publisher Sierra and developer The Odd Gentlemen announced during The Game Awards event last week. The title has been scheduled for a fall 2015 release on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and …