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Microsoft brings on board former lead game designer to aid TV push

Stand-up comedian Imran Yusuf has stepped up to host this year’s Develop Industry Excellence Awards. Born in Mombasa and raised in the UK, Yusuf initially plotted a career as a game designer before turning to the comedy circuit after illustrating a talent for bringing the laughs to audiences across the …

Naughty Dog has called out a Swedish games mag for its presentation of The Last of Us on its cover. A recent edition of GameReactor contained an image of co-protagonist Joel standing over a felled enemy. However, as pointed out Naughty Dog game’s creative director Neil Druckman on Twitter the …

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The MCV team have returned from E3 to reveal the true winner of the show and dictaphone filled with interviews. For our first issue back, we have put together a full and detailed interview with Sony Computer Entertainment’s Jim Ryan and Fergal Gara about PS4, Vita and continued support for …

It’s the season of flooded streets and water-born diseases, and it’s just the excuse retailers needed to offer huge discounts on games. Both Flipkart and Game4u have kicked off their monsoon sales, offering discounts of up to 75%. On Flipkart.com, the sale extends to over 500 console titles, including Skyrim’s …

Microsoft and Sony will implement slow and subtle move to online on next-gen hardware

Hurry! There’s only two weeks left to book your place in this year’s Sourcebook. Sourcebook is the essential guide to agencies and service companies working in video games, technology and entertainment. And you only have until July 5th to secure your space in the 2013 edition, giving you the chance …

Hopes that Wii U might increase its competitive position via a price cut in the run-up to Christmas have seemingly been dashed. That’s because Nintendo has already priced the Wii U as competitively as is financially possible, CEO Satoru Iwata told CNBC, as spotted by GamesRadar. From the very beginning …

A long-awaited driver update that promises to fix one of the biggest issues dogging AMD graphics card will be released on July 31st. AMD confirmed as much on Twitter last night. The driver upgrade will apparently fix problems that were identified earlier this year with users running two AMD Radeon …