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The controversy over Hammerpoint’s now pulled shooter The War Z has led to hackers attacking the game’s servers. Developer Sergey Titov apologised for the saga earlier this week, but the furore has seemingly left a sour taste in the mouths of the gaming community. Guys over the last few days …

Zombie MMO continues to take a beating

Having held out for the best part of two years, Nintendo’s 3DS seems to have sadly succumbed to pirates. With both the Wii and DS suffering intense levels of piracy, Nintendo put a lot of effort into securing its latest hardware. And it had been very successful, until now. Gamasutra …

The Citadel Investment Group upped its stake in Take-Two over the holidays, and now owns about six per cent of the Grand Theft Auto publisher. With GTA V on the horizon the group, owned by billionaire Ken Griffen, is not the only firm to take an interest in the company. …

Creditors of troubled publisher THQ have filed complaints about the proposed sale to Clearlake Capital Group. THQ was declared bankrupt last month and immediately announced that it had agreed a sale to Clearlake in a stalking horse bidder” deal. However, US Trustee Roberta DeAngelis, who is overseeing the bankruptcy, has …

Nexus City and Selma's Story canned as indie dev begins anew

Garage Games looking for $500,000 to fund 3 Step Studio suite of tools and templates

Claims are circulating that pre-owned Wii U consoles are able to access digital content purchased by the machine’s previous owner. Eurogamer reports that even machines whose hard drives have been wiped and accounts removed are still susceptible to the loophole. Speculation suggests that the problems stems from the fact that …

This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it boasts our huge review of the year where we discuss the seven games that defined 2012. We also analyse the November sales data, pick the 25 Gadgets to stock this Christmas and reveal the full state of the UK …

VOiD Games releases first title on App Store with plans to release four more apps by summer