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These days it’s not the done thing for a journalist to praise a PR. But it would be remiss to ignore the departure of HMV’s head of PR Gennaro Castaldo, who bids farewell to the retailer this week after almost 30 years. Those who haven’t worked with Gennaro will have …

SDK embraces Fortumo payment platform for 'easy access' to in app purchasing

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, our sister technology title Mobile Entertainment has announced its ME Awards 2013. The eight-year-old event has a large focus on mobile gaming and many of the other elements found in the digital space. The developer and games world is hugely crowded …

Our latest issue takes a look behind the scenes at Infinity Ward and Call of Duty: Ghosts

It looks like the PC graphics card battle of 2013 is far from over. Yesterday’s release of Nvidia’s GTX 770 (and last week’s release of the GTX 780) had seemingly signalled an end to the PC GPU wars for the foreseeable future, but talk now suggests AMD is rallying a …

BioWare’s classic RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is now available on iPad. No-one even knew the port was in the works until IGN went live with a shock review for the title on Wednesday. The game has since become available on the Apple App Store for 6.99. …

This latest MCV–which isnow available to view online– features an interview with two senior VPs at Activision on the future of Skylanders and its impending fight with Disney Infinity. We also reveal the top long-lasting indie games retailers, let retail have their say on Wii U, and discuss the impending …

A bigger battery pack for the Wii U GamePad is in the works, though only in Japan at the moment. Eurogamer reports Nintendo Japan recently announced the upgraded battery pack, alongside a few other new hardware accessories for the Wii U. The new 2,550mAh model will provide double the power …

Publisher EA has removed all Online Passes from existing games. Eurogamer reports that titles that had previously required the purchase or activation of an Online Pass to access either additional content or online multiplayer are now free of such restrictions. Titles that until now prompted users to enter a code …

Take-Two Interactive executive chairman Strauss Zelnick believes it won’t be long before the publisher is launching games on tablets simultaneously with their console and PC equivalents. Polygon reports Zelnick spoke on the matter during a talk at the Cowen and Company Technology, Media and Telecom Conference. "We continue to believe …