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If you’re in the UK and in the market for a Wii, now is the time to act. Having confirmed that the machine is no longer being supplied to the Japanese market, Nintendo has now revealed that Europe too will not be receiving any further stock of the machine. Wii …

In the the latest edition of MCV, we reveal the rising superstars in the UK games industry. It is yet another issue rammed with news and features, Koch Media’s Klemens Kundratitz discusses the future of the growing publisher and HMV reveals its comeback plans. And that’s on top of all …

Nintendo has confirmed that American retail will continue to be supplied with Wii consoles. MCV reported earlier this week that a message on the Wii page of Nintendo’s Japanese site confirmed that production of the console had ceased in the region. However, that does not reflect its fate elsewhere. "The …

A new subscription service has been unveiled by e-sports brand Virgin Gaming. VentureBeat reports that Virgin Premium will cost $4.99 per month. For that users can enter competitive multiplayer tournaments without the need to surrender a portion of their winnings, as is the way with the current offer. Subscribers are …

The official minimum PC requirements for Call of Duty: Ghosts have been released. They’re broadly the same as the Nvidia specs reported earlier in the month, although the GPU requirements have been paired back a bit from a GTX 550Ti to a GTS 450 and HDD space requirements have been …

Oxide Games working on 64-bit multicore development platform Nitrous for PC, PS4 and Xbox One

It will be six months before players on other platforms get their hands on Sony’s exclusive Ubisoft DLC. Both Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and the delayed Watch Dogs include exclusive” content on both PS4 and PS3 – and a video below from Sony confirms the precise period of that …

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The multiplayer component of Konami’s PES 2014 on Xbox 360 has at last been fixed. An update is now available and ready to download, and should do so manually the next time the game is loaded up. However, 11v11 online multiplayer is not yet available and will be introduced in …

Student team Pudding Lane Production wins competition run by GameCity and the British Library