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EA’s longterm executive chairman Larry Probst is stepping down from his role on January 1st. Polygon reports that Probst will continue to serve as a non-executive chairman. He’s been at EA since 1984 and has on several occasions stepped up to assume control between the appointment of figureheads such as …

2014 has already been one to forget for Tesco, and the news just keeps getting worse. The retailer has now warned that profits for the year ending February 2015 "will not exceed 1.4bn" – that’s well below the 1.8bn-2.2bn the markets had expected and significantly down on the 3.3bn recorded …

Some of the figures featured in Nintendo’s initial shipment of Amiibo figures will not be restocked, the platform holder has confirmed. We will aim for certain Amiibo to always be available,” the platform holder told Wired. These will be for our most popular characters like Mario and Link. Due to …

Hearthstone’s Goblins vs Gnomes expansion has launched across all platforms. The first expansion for Blizzard’s popular online collectible card game features 120 new cards, and players who long into the game between now and December 19th will pick up three free Goblins vs Gnomes card packs. Beyond that, the expansion …

Gome Home developer Fullbright has teased its sophomore effort, Tacoma. The game takes place 200,000 miles from earth on the titular Lunar Transfer Station, with the trailer showing off a facility that has a similar vibe to the original underwater setting in BioShock – which certainly adds up given lead …

Square Enix is bringing the enhanced PC version of Final Fantasy VII to PlayStation 4 next year, but the news isn’t sitting very well with fans of the franchise. The company announced at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event that Final Fantasy VII will arrive on PS4 in spring 2015, carrying the …

Every January, we kick off a new year with a series of recruitment specials helping people that are looking for a new challenge – and 2015 will be no different. In fact, this year’s New Year, New Job bonanza will encompass both MCVUK.com and the MCV magazine. The January 23rd …

CD Projekt’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has suffered a second delay. In March it was announced that the game would not hit its late 2014 release date and would instead arrive in February 2015. This has now been pushed back to May 19th 2015. Ever since we started working …

Bonuses are being offered to some of YouTube’s biggest stars in an attempt to stop them being lured away by rival networks, a report has claimed. A person close to the company told The Wall Street Journal that YouTube has been in a fire drill” led by global head of …

Some PS4 owners who have pre-ordered Destiny’s The Dark Below DLC have been left unable to play the game. GameSpot says that several reports suggest that those affected are when trying to load the game presented with a timer counting down to the release of the DLC tomorrow. For some …