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Valve has released Steam’s latest top ten sellers chart, highlighting the big winners for the latter half of the Steam Holiday Sale. Ubisoft’s blockbuster Far Cry 3 finished ahead of Runic’s popular dungeon crawling sequel Torchlight II. Skyrim, which finished in the runner-up spot last week, finishes one spot behind …

Epic's free development kit helped father make miniature racing title for son

In MCV’s weeklyrundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, former Activision UK MD Andrew Brown returns temporarily to the role and we look at the hottest job opportunities. BROWN HEADS UP ACTIVISION UK AS HEPWORTH DEPARTS Activision’s former UK managing director Andrew Brown has taken back his UK …

We are barely a week into the New Year and once again there is much talk about HMV’s financial troubles. The firm recently warned that it may breach lending agreements this month, and has been in constant talks with suppliers, banks and lenders over Christmas. And in what is becoming …

New hacks surface, while Hunted Cow shuts down its pirated game after one week

Crysis 3 is unlikely to be the last in the series… but it could turn out to be the series’ last first person shooter. "At this point I don’t want to give anything away," Crytek producer Michael Elliot Read told OXM. "But I think the Crysis franchise itself has life …

RuneScape developer insists it will file its accounts soon as Companies House makes proposal to strike them off

UK retailer GAME is to host a number of EA lock-ins” across the country. The events will invite gamers to hang around after hours and get hands-on with a number of pre-release EA titles, starting with Dead Space 3. And pig out on free food and drink. Customers will have …

Android console newcomer GameStick is off to a flying start after hitting its Kickstarter funding target on just its second day. The project was after $100,000 and currently sits on $142,000 with 27 days still to run. The hardware is the brainchild of casual games firm PlayJam. It comes in …

Three 007 games have been removed from Valve’s leading downloads store, as well as Activision’s own digital portal. Steam users were the first to notice that 007 Legends, 007 Blood Stone and Quantum of Solace are now missing from the service, according to VG247. It was later found that they …