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Video-sharing website explains changes to Content ID system

Merchandise brand Joystick Junkies has continued its expansion by opening a brand new website. Gaming fans can browse and buy goodies based on a number of different brands on computers and mobile devices. In addition to launch its new site, the firm has signed a partnership with Warner Bros to …

Ex-Producer Joshua Drescher praises original development team, but laments 'real human cost' of the game's failure

Since August, MCV has been chronicling the key features of Xbox One and its games. Now you can read a compilation in our ultimate Road to Xbox One guide. Click here to read it in your browser. It is also available as a digital edition on iPad. The Road to …

YouTube has responded to users angry about the company’s rather aggressive new copyright detection system. The internet firm hasn’t apologised, or changed its policies, however. Instead it has suggested users mute background music from games to stop a suspected violation of copyright and use background music from YouTube’s own audio …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog looks at methods for improving energy performance in your apps

MEC Global Solutions' social strategy director Maria Dsouza explores Sony and Microsoft's use of social media in the run-up to launch

Ubisoft's hotly-anticipated sci-fi hit built on technology for a driving title

UK studio working with Hello Games on handheld ports, due in 2014

2m 3DS consoles have been sold in the UK so far, MCV can reveal. That number combines sales of 3DS, 3DS XL and the new budget model, 2DS. It falls short of what the original DS had managed at this stage in its lifecycle, but is still an impressive figure …