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Industry charity GamesAid is giving one generous soul the chance to win a PlayStation 4. In celebration of this year’s horse spectacular, anyone who donates 10 to GamesAid (details below) will be eligible for the competition. Entrants will then need to email their name to david.walker@live.co.uk to be considered. Horses …

Smite developer creates 30 new job vacancies

In the wake of last night’s reveal of Amazon’s Fire TV, MCV got in touch with the retailer for an interview. Amazon can be a secretive company. Much like Apple, it’s a business happy to throw extravagant over-hyped press events, but when it comes to actually talking to the media …

Quality assurance firm opens new office to serve South East Asian region, and looks to take on new staff

Amazon has said that it currently doesn’t have any plans to release FireTV outside of the US. "Fire TV is not available outside the US at this time and we’re not able to speculate on future plans," an Amazon rep told CVG, refusing to comment any further on the matter. …

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New UK studio Freejam explains the pitfalls of making an indie eSports game, and how it's avoiding them

Warner Bros has revealed the release date for upcoming Lord of the Rings title Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC title will arrive on October 7th. The game, which has an unusually supernatural thrust for a Tolkien title, is clearly inspired by the …

GamesGrabr is the latest brand to support this year’s MCV Awards. The social network has signed up as event partner for the evening, which takes place on April 10th at the London Lancaster Hotel and will be hosted by Channel 4 presenter and stand-up comedian Adam Hills. The firm joins …

It’s all a bit 1999. That’s according to one one of the MCV team this morning after watching Amazon’s new Game Studios teaser video, which offers first glimpses of a number of in-development games at the company. To date Sev Zero is the only confirmed AGS exclusive title for FireTV, …