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The championship rounds of Dota 2 competition The International will air on ESPN3, Valve has announced. A post on Steam’s news section reveals the eSports competition will be available to view live on ESPN’s online streaming service with matches, analysis, interviews and all. Watchers can also view the competition on …

PlayStation 4 led US hardware sales for the sixth consecutive month and remains the life-to-date leader for next-gen hardware, Sony has announced. The news arrives alongside NPD’s June 2014 report, which shows a major (106 per cent) year-over-year increase in hardware revenue driven by console sales. The 106 percent increase …

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer has confirmed Xbox Entertainment Studios will close as part of the company’s recently announced cost-cutting plan. Re/code sources claim that the branch was "disorganized" and "lacked a fully fleshed-out business model." The Santa Monica-based studio housed around 200 employees. "As part of the planned reduction to our …

A Kickstarter campaign for an adventure game based on popular YouTube channel Yogscast has been scrapped, with backers likely to lose out on a refund. The Yogventures project raised $570,000 on the crowd-funding site back in 2012, with indie developer Winterkewl Games set to create the title in time for …

The latest MCV is now available online – this week we talk to virtual reality firm Oculus about its plans for global domination. We also speak to EA DICE’sKarl-Magnus Troedsson about the latest Battlefield game and the developers new studios. In our Insight section this week PCR’s Dom Sacco tells …

Only two weeks remain to get involved with the daily MCV @ Gamescom magazines at this year’s show. The team behind the weekly MCV and MCVuk.com will produce three editions of MCV @ Gamescom during the trade days of the games fair, which runs from August 13th to 17th in …

Develop and its sister team MCV will produce official magazine for the world's biggest games show

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Microsoft will cut 18,000 jobs over the next year, the firm has said. The majority of those will be in the firm’s Nokia division that it acquired in April. 12,500 jobs will be going from the mobile operation. The move is part of a cost-cutting programme designed to save the …

Want to try Nintendo’s quirky life-sim title Tomodachi Life for free? The platform holder is emailing out codes for a free version of its life-stim game to those signed up to its newsletter. Entitled the Welcome Version, this demo gives players a chance to try the title for free. This …