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Yesterday at Gamescom, Sony announced that you’ll be able to upgrade from the PS3 versions of certain games to the PS4 versions for a heavily discounted price. Activision has put that price at $10, which is today around Rs 640. There’s no telling what it might be tomorrow. PS3 owners …

Riot Games has confirmed the League of Legends servers have been hacked, exposing the account data of some of its North American customers. League of Legends is one of the most played games on the planet, boasting millions of users worldwide, but the attacks are said to have targeted North …

Some user data exposed, possibly including hashed and salted passwords and credit cards

Konami has nailed down a UK release date for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions of PES 2014. The football sim will be released on September 20th. That’s exactly one week before the arrival of the current-gen version of EA’s FIFA 14. The PS2 and PSP versions of PES …

EA is offering full refunds for all its titles purchased on the distribution service

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 will release on 20th September; three days after Grand Theft Auto V and a week before rival FIFA 14. While Konami has earlier said that it would release a demo for PES 2014 this month, it has now revealed that the demo will arrive on 11th …

Sony has revealed a 33-game strong launch line-up for the PS4. The line-up features 15 games that will be available on disc, with the rest being released digitally via PSN, all on 29th November. Here’s the complete list (via Eurogamer): Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Blu-ray/digital) Basement Crawl (digital) Battlefield …

PC games space will close next year

Update: PlayStation Middle East has confirmed to IGN that the PlayStation 4 will launch in the GCC (Gulf Coperation Council) region this holiday season. It is likely then that the PS4 will also arrive in India at the same time. Original story: A 2013 launch for the PlayStation 4 in …

MCV has just published its very first Gamescom daily magazine for iPad and browsers. It’s online now, and it’sFREE! Published in association with Xbox One, the 14-pagemagazine has been put together by the MCV team currently working out of the Cologne games show. It features news from the show, a …