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Eighty per cent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago.” Think about that for a moment. It’s quite remarkable, really. Apple has in that time released a new iPhone, two new iPods, a new iPad and a new MacBook Pro. I mean, no company would …

Owners of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PS3 shouldn’t give up hope on the DLC. While expansions Dawnguard and Hearthfire are already out on Xbox 360 and PC (with the latter releasing once Microsoft’s Xbox exclusivity window passed), the PS3 versions has yet to receive the add-ons. The most …

Community members get access to much anticipated PC shooter

Meteor Entertainment’s free to play mech title Hawken will enter open beta on December 12th. It will be accessible in all territories excluding China, where it is instead being published by Kong Zhong. Open beta is our chance to implement all the good feedback we’ve gotten from closed beta players …

Most major games arrive in the UK with a bang: often a star-studded launch party, some form of high-profile PR stunt and a slew of midnight openings. But while such launches are often a much more muted affair in other territories, there are some publishers trying to bring the spectacle …

If you spend any sort of time on the internet you’ve probably suffered at the hands of a troll. MCV knows about this all too well. But even amongst these cesspools of morons, elements of the League of Legends community have a quite brutal reputation. Which is why the developers …

Inaugural title KnightScape made using studio's mobile game platform

Online games maker Bigpoint has surpassed 300 million registered users. Bigpoint has created online hits, such as Battlestar Galactica Online, Drakensang Online, Farmerama, Pirate Storm and Dark Orbit, amassing communities across the world, connected by its global gaming site Bigpoint.com. In recent years, we’ve seen a rapid increase and unprecedented …

The last NASSCOM Gaming Forum meet-up of 2012 will take place in Bangalore later this month. Scheduled to speak at the meet-up are Dhruva Interactive CEO and NASSCOM Gaming Forum chair Rajesh Rao; Sumit Mehra, executive producer at Zynga; and HashCube co-founder Deepan Chakravarthy. The 3rd Bangalore meet-up is scheduled …

This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it boasts our huge annual retail survey. The survey reveals who the High Street thinks was the best publisher, moment and distributor of 2012, amongst others. It also discusses its hopes for Christmas and what we can expect from 2013. …