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Students in mandatory internships at Foxconn are paid, but program has dubious educational value

Arma 3 will receive the first of its promised single-player story content as a free DLC pack on October 31st, developer Bohemia Interactive has announced. The military shooter lacked a campaign mode when it launched in September, which Bohemia has promised to remedy with free post-release content updates. The first …

David Wildgoose joins MCV Pacific, we look back at the EB EXPO 2013, and musical chairs occur in Australian jobs. Here’s a roundup of the biggest news this week on MCVuk.com’s sister site MCV Pacific: David Wildgoose joins MCV Pacific as its first full time editorial employee, look after the …

Activision Blizzard has announced it expects to complete its stock buyout from Vivendi next week. The Delaware Supreme Court lifted the injunction regarding the transaction, just a few weeks after shareholders attempted to block it by seeking the preliminary court order – in addition to filing individual lawsuits against the …

Fresh voices and media pros alike took home key accolades at the Games Media Awards tonight. The journalist-voted prizes acknowledge the best new and established talent working in the UK games media. Dan Douglas was named Games Writer of The Year, winning for his piece "Play The Pain Away", which …

F2P Summit: Games GM Nick-Button Brown speaks frankly about depiction of women in FPS

It has been alleged that controversial Chinese manufacturer Foxconn has been using forced labour as part of its PS4 manufacturing operation. GamesInAisa cites reports emerging in China claiming that thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s …

F2P Summit: Ionage developer Tim Wicksteed shares some mistakes he made when making his first free-to-play game

Grand Theft Auto V will be released on PC next year, according to a new report. Eurogamer claims to have word from multiple sources” that the game will be released some time in Q1 2014 – meaning between January and March. There’s certainly a hunger for a PC version, with …

F2P Summit: GamesBrief's Nicholas Lovell explores the differences between freemium games and traditional production