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Valve has released Steam’s latest weekly top ten sales chart, revealing XCOM: Enemy Unknown has backed up last week’s first place finish with another this time around. Dishonored sneaks up to the runner-up spot, with Borderlands 2, its ‘Season Pass’, and Torchlight II rounding out the top five. The bottom …

Renowned director names Valve as dream collaborator

Spry Fox wins ownership of Yeti Town IP from 6Waves

Xbox and Windows platform holder Microsoft is to have another stab at competing with iTunes and Spotify in the digital music market. Tomorrow the firm will launch a new music service, Xbox Music. The big hook for Xbox Music is that is being specifically designed to work across many devices, …

In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Gem names its new strategic development manager and we look at the best jobs opportunities. MACINTYRE HEADS UP STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT AT GEMThe distributor and retail services provider welcomes Iain MacIntyre as its strategic development manager. Group strategic development …

There are only seven days left if you wanted to nominate someone to be recognised as one of the industry’s brightest young stars in 30 Under 30. Every year this hugely popular feature highlights the achievements and exertions of the industry’s younger execs working across the UK – but nominations …

Outspoken tech exec and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has labelled his former employer as arrogant” regarding its refusal to make the iPhone 5 larger. Though the design and construction of Apple’s latest handset is undoubtedly amongst the very best on the market, the handset is certainly undersized compared to its …

The Swiss market is one that has remained relatively stable despite the economic pressures Europe faces. In 2011, the combined unit sales for both software and hardware remained flat compared to the year before, down by only one per cent and still at over 4m units. However, the weakening Euro …

MCV talks to Nintendo’s new UK marketing director Shelly Pearce… We have always been listening, but maybe people weren’t aware.” If there’s one person that knows the conventional wisdom of ‘Nintendo doesn’t get the internet’ isn’t quite true, it’s Shelly Pearce. The 14 year veteran of Nintendo – a decade …

A listing for the as-of-yet unannounced Rayman Origins 2 has appeared online. The retail listing was spotted by The Sixth Axis, with a speculative release date of 2013 on PS3. Ubisoft issued MCV with a no comment when asked about the existence of the game. The Rayman IP has undergone …