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All launch copies of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will ship with a download code for the Cyborg Ninja character skin, Konami has revealed. Players can apply the skin to protagonist Raiden, and side from changing his appearance to resemble Gray Fox from the original Metal Gear Solid game, the skin …

In MCV’s weeklyrundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, we Dixons hires a new assistant category manager and look at the best job opportunities. DARLINGTON JOINS DIXONS TEAMJoshua Darlington has joined Dixons Retail’s PC gaming peripherals and upgrades team as assistant category manager. He will be working primarily …

Tech giant amasses $13.1 billion in profits during Q1

A hard-to-find version of Namco Bandai RPG Ni No Kuni is currently selling for up to four times more than its RRP on eBay. The publisher announced earlier this week that a computer glitch had led to more orders being accepted for the $99.99 Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the …

Apple is on the ropes as customers flock from iOS to Android, right? Perhaps not. The tech company last night reported record Q1 sales of 47.8m iPhones and 22.9m iPads. That’s up on last year’s sales of 37m and 15.4m respectively. That works out as over 800,000 iOS device sales …

Further redundancies hit Canada and US offices

The executive director of Platinum Games has said he would love to buy the Darksiders IP from THQ. The Vigil Games-developed IP is currently still up for grabs after no companies made a bid for the studio or franchise in yesterday’s THQ auction. Taking toTwitter, as spotted byPolygon, Atsushi Inaba …

This week’s MCV – which isnow available to view online–reveals that the average games salary in the UK fell by almost 4,000 to just under 30,000. This figure comes from the results of our annual salary survey, which are printed in full and analysed in this week’s issue. We also …

Hardware interface for Android-powered console gets rejig based on developer feedback

Apple has stuck to its word and begun to cut ties with Chinese suppliers who are found to employ underage workers. Apple last year joined forces with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) after a report from the organisation found evidence of the practise at some of Apple’s suppliers. Now the …