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As our Indie Retail Month continues, we turn our attention to some of the most inventive indies on the scene that aim to bring consumers something a little different from the rest. First up is Game On. Owner Emma Mills tells MCV how Magic the Gathering card events have done …

Kristian Segerstrale on why developers should concentrate their efforts on a single platform

The latest game from Reliance’s Borderwar franchise is out now on Android, Blackberry and Java platforms. Borderwar Defence Patrol is a tower defence game set in a futuristic World War 3 setting. Gameplay sees the player in-charge of a turret to hold off enemy offences. Enemies include ground units such …

Significant update to cross-platform SDK introduces native support for Android platforms running Intel chipsets

Puzzle & Dragons maker's stock market value rose above console maker twice this month

The final entry into our look at the UK’s top online-only indies is the 2013 MCV Award winner, Simply Games. Owner Neil Muspratt tells MCV why the site is deliberately remaining a games-only business Simply Games is one of the biggest success stories in online indie retail. The 2013 MCV …

Localisation firm expands operations in South America

Nvidia has today released the long-rumoured GTX 770 PC graphics card. It will retail for just 329 and is based on the company’s Keplar architecture, which also powers the likes of the GTX 650, 660, 670, 680 and 690. It comes with either 2GB or 4GB or DDR5 RAM that …

Retail giant HMV is losing a number of high profile employees this week, including its games buyer and marketing boss. Games category buyer Richard Thompson (pictured) is leaving the business this week to move to Australia, he has worked at HMV for 11 years. His departure follows the redundancy of …

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