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EA’s FIFA 14 has been crowned as the internet global buzz champion of Gamescom 2014. New research from Way to Blue collating Twitter, blog and online news mentions, saw EA’s football title grab a massive 41 per cent share of the online noise throughout the German trade show. It was …

Nvidia has announced a second graphics card partnership with an upcoming triple-A title. The GeForce GPU manufacturer is offering free copies of Warner’s Batman: Arkham Origins to anyone who buys a GTX 600 or GTX 700 series graphics card by January 31st 2014. The game will also implement Nvidia-exclusive PC …

MCV returned from Gamescom this week armed with a dictaphone full of interviews and plenty of insight to share. And our first edition of MCV back is all about PS4 and Xbox One, with our exclusive interviews with Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis and PlayStation Europe chief Jim Ryan. Who …

Entertainment retailer HMV has confirmed that some of its stores will be opening their doors at midnight for Grand Theft Auto V. With the game arriving worldwide on September 17th, the events will be taking place on the evening of Monday September 16th. There’s not much information available at the …

Fils-Aime discusses how the firm is working on improving developer support

A campaign to get Steam to confirm whether or not a game includes subtitles in its listings has seemingly been a success. MCV reported in July that UK gamer Kristina Barber has began a petition for the addition of such information, saying at the time that I don’t think in …

Plans to drop new content in Asia puts platform's future in doubt

The PlayStation Vita was designed for a market where smartphones, tablets and freemium games were not the driving force. So when the machine arrived in both 279.99 and 229.99 versions on February 22nd 2012, it unsurprisingly struggled to make an impact on the market. And that, according to Sony’s UK …

Rockstar, Bungie, Ubisoft, Activision and Bethesda partner with Sony

Sony and Nintendo have vastly differing handheld visions, as is demonstrated by the contrasting approaches of Vita and 3DS. That’s the opinion of Nintendo marketing executive Scott Moffitt, who has told GameSpot that Nintendo is the one that has got it right. "Certainly, on the handheld side, we’re heading in …