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Ouya will meet its first major post-Kickstarter deadline, with developer kits officially scheduled to start shipping before the end of the month. The team behind Ouya has announced kits for the Android-based console will begin shipping on December 28th. Ouya’s SDK should also be available online around the same time. …

Valve has revealed Steam’s top ten selling titles for the past week and, for all intents and purposes, the second half of the digital distributor’s Autumn Sale. Dishonored is the discount winner this time around, beating out Boderlands 2 and Torchlight II finishing in second and third respectively. Black Ops …

Sony may be combining traditional and motion control in one device

In MCV’s weeklyrundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Microsoft hires an experienced games PR and we look at the hottest job opportunities. MICROSOFT HIRES DENNISThe platform holder has hired Mark Dennis as Xbox EMEA PR manager. He will primarily be responsible for first and third party core …

Bored on a Friday afternoon? Spend a few minutes letting us know your thoughts about the 2013 jobs market. Yes, MCV’s annual salary survey is back – your chance to share both the pain and pleasure of working in the games industry. We also plan to revive the popular Jobs …

Capcom’s most popular fighting franchises will be part of the IGN Pro League tournament in 2013. Next year’s eSports competition will include Capcom’s Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken, putting fans of fighting games centre stage at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Along with the …

'The eShop has restored our faith in the potential of downloadable console games', says Frozenbyte's Joel Kinnunen

Students to be given a glut of production software

We ask studios big and small what the console offers and how you can take advantage

It gave up on video games in 2010, but now WH Smith is back on board… sort of. The newsagent chain is stocking all three versions of Sony’s new Wonderbook: Book of Spells. That includes the bundle which includes the PS3. WH Smith is also stocking the toys for Activision’s …