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After Interact 2013 in Mumbai last month, distributor E-xpress Interactive will hold a trade marketing event for the north India region this month. Along the lines of Interact, the aim of Connect is to expose E-xpress’ 2013-14 line-up of games to retailers and other trade partners in the north India …

Microsoft recently abandoned its universal Microsoft Points system for Xbox Live in favour of local currencies. The result, at least for Indian Xbox Live users, is cheaper games. We compared prices for several games across Xbox Live’s Games on Demand service and the PlayStation Store and, to our surprise, most …

InMCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, IGN names its new games editor and we look at the best positions available. IGN promotes Krupa to games editor The games and entertainment media giant has promoted Daniel Krupa to games editor. He joined IGN from university …

Nintendo is working hard on building an infrastructure to support independent developers on its 3DS and Wii U platforms, says Reggie Fils-Aime. Speaking toIGN, the Nintendo of America president said the firm, which in the past has been criticised for its indie support and lack of online focus, is spending …

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 …