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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 …

An MP who was caught playing King’s Candy Crush Saga during a parliamentary committee meeting has apologised for his behaviour. The Guardian reports that Conservative Amber Valley MP Nigel Mills was pictured by The Sun playing the game during a meeting of the works and pensions committee. There was a …

‘Business deals happen’ – that’s the reaction from Xbox boss Phil Spencer to the news that Street Fighter V will be a PS4 console exclusive. Capcom’s game was last week revealed as a PS4 and PC exclusive. Business deals happen. We won’t do all of them,” Spencer said on Twitter. …

The price of Telltale’s Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands has been cut on PS4. It was noticed last week that the total price for the new Game of Thrones series on PS4 was 24.99 while on Xbox One it was just 19.98. Eurogamer now reports that the …