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EXCLUSIVE: Pop sensation Kylie Minogue will star in her own video game this Christmas, MCV can reveal. Kylie Sing & Dance will be released exclusively for Wii in November and will feature 25 of the star’s biggest hits. Tracks will include ‘I Should Be So Lucky’, ‘Can’t Get You Out …

Mobile start-up's first title is about card-collecting and monster-bashing

This week’s MCV isnow available to download– and it features blockbuster interviews with Nintendo’s Shelly Pearce and Sony’s entire UK senior management team. Also in this edition is an exclusive chat with Rovio’s EVP of games, to discuss how Angry Birds Star Wars came to be. We’ve listed the contents …

A new memoir from author Salman Rushdie has revealed that the respected academic has a (until now) secret love of SNES hit Super Mario World. The Millions reports that at one stage during his ten-year exile on the run from a fatwa, Rushdie took to playing Super Mario World after …

Hats off as Clark moves to Finnish mobile studio

Microsoft’s own guidelines for the Windows 8 Marketplace will prevent the sale of 18 rated games, it has been confirmed. Kotaku has had confirmation directly from Microsoft that new rules regarding the sale of apps WILL apply to all games sold through the portal. Specifically, the guidelines read: Apps with …

Apple’s fight to get the iPhone 5 into customer’s hands is continuing to prove troublesome. It has already had to deal with the iOS 6 Maps fiasco and potential issues with its camera, and now early claims of scratched casing are leading to production issues. Bloomberg reports that senior Apple …

EXCLUSIVE:The PlayStation 3 has surpassed 5m consoles sold in the UK, MCV can reveal. The firm reached the milestone as a new-look 500GB PS3 hit the market on September 28th, causing a 138 per cent jump in sales that week. A 12GB SKU is out today (October 12th). And the …

JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth has effectively labelled social gaming firm Zynga as worthless”. That is to say that its share value has now fallen so low – $2.35 per share, in fact – that it is no longer worth as much as its securities, which combined represent value of …

A launch date for Kickstarter UK has been set. The service expands into the new region on October 31st, and users are allowed to start building their projects right now – though none can go live until the end of the month. Kickstarter has provided a solid FAQ post on …