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Annual fighting game tournament EVO was more popular than ever in 2013, according to broadcast partner Twitch.tv. Joystiq reports on a statement from Twitch’s VP of marketing Matthew DiPietro, who revealed record breaking figures for the Vegas-based event. "It was nearly fifty percent higher than last year’s EVO, which was …

The Steam Summer Sale’s deep discounts on Skyrim, Dishonored and other past chart-toppers have opened the door for the aging hits to make another run up the top sellers list. Note that, unlike the week before, the promotion ran for the duration of the seven-day sales period this time around. …

Ubisoft has talked in the past about an Indian setting for the Assassin’s Creed universe, and that’s about to become a reality; just not in the way you’d expect. Assassin’s Creed: Brahman is a graphic novel set in 19th century India during British colonisation. The comics will star a new …

In MCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Electronic Arts names its new marketing manager and we look at the best vacancies available. EA NAMES TOMKINS AS NEW MARKETING BOSSAndy Tomkins has been promoted to marketing director for Northern Europe at Electronic Arts. His appointment …

Games writing duo to be represented by prolific agency

Konami's football franchise to use Havok's physics, animation and cloth tech

Ouya is set to open a new $1 million fund to help boost successful Kickstarter projects. The ‘Free the Games Fund’ will back developers bringing their games exclusively to its Android console, and will match donations of successfully crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter from $50,000 up to $250,000. The initiative will …

Days after we announced that Steam Wallet cards would be launched in India soon, a few retailers have started offering them. Strangely, the cards are yet to be officially released in India. Nextworld has the cards listed in five denominations – $5, $10, $25, $50 and $100, although only the …

It’s certainly true that in today’s competitive jobs market you need to make yourself stand out if you wish to succeed. So taking a year out of your life and devoting in the region of 2,000 hours to create a hugely ambitious and well-received mod for the popular The Elder …

We take a look at over a quintet of vacancies across the UK