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Leading retailer and growing platform holder Amazon has announced a complete refresh of its Fire tablet and Kindle ereader range. Leading the charge is its iPad Air rivalling Fire HDX 8.9 tablet, which offers a super hi-def 2560×1600 pixel display – that’s 1m more pixels on screen than can be …

Evolution’s upcoming racing title DriveClub is to be the second title bundled with Sony’s Glacier White PS4. A freshly announced €439.99 bundle launching on October 8th will include a white console, white controller and copy of the game. Alternatively, a second bundle – called the PS4 Player Edition bundle – …

It’s been a difficult few months for consumer games journalists. They’ve found themselves facing what feels like never-ending accusations of corruption. YouTubers like Total Biscuit are proudly declaring that they hold ‘more power and influence then any games journalist’. And this week Destiny launched and broke all records for a …

Get to know the experts speaking at our conference in Scotland on October 2nd

Players of Angry Birds Epic are now able to donate to literacy charity Room to Read by buying an in-game item. In honour of International Literacy Day, which took place on September 8th, Angry Birds Epic is for the next two weeks offering players the chance to purchase a Good …

A US analyst has predicted that Sony could eventually grow to control virtually the entire console market. "Sony has the potential to make the game console market its exclusive territory,” Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Eiichi Katayama told The Wall Street Journal in a report claiming that the company’s current …

Sword fighting game Clang will now not be released, despite being successfully Kickstarted in 2012. Creator Neal Stephenson hit the pause button” on development a year ago, despite the fact the game had long passed its $500k Kickstarter goal, raising $526,125. Now the project has been cancelled outright. Last year, …

CVG associate editor Rob Crossley has left the gaming website. He started working at CVG in May 2012, having previously been online editor for MCV’s sister title Develop. I’m incredibly proud of the work CVG has produced during my tenure as associate editor and I will miss my colleagues dearly,” …

Emails claimed a dozen people would be killed unless Ambassador Award was revoked

Moshi Monsters web team affected by round of redundancies