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HMV wants its West End Oxford Street store to become the new home for midnight game launches. It follows the closure of GAME?Oxford Street – which for years had been the publishers’ choice for official launch events. Since Game no longer has a major West End presence, we hope publishers …

Over a month after EA filed its copyright lawsuit against Zynga, the social gaming giant has responded with a suit of its own. Not only is Zynga denying EA’s claim that The Ville is a blatant rip-off of The Sims Social, but it has also mustered some accusations of its …

Social games giant claims unfair competition over alleged no-hire agreement

Fallout: New Vegas studio returns to Black Isle roots with old-school RPG Project Eternity

Pre-orders for the Wii U Deluxe edition have apparently reached their allotted numbers across all US Gamestop stores. A report out of Polygon claims that reservations for the currently definitive Wii U package have been filled ‘company wide’ in America. The basic bundle is likely to follow suit sometime soon …

The Pocket Edition of Minecraft has arrived for the Kindle Fire. It runs $7, same as the iOS and Android versions, and is available to purchase now on the Amazon Appstore. Joystiq points out persistent Kindle Fire owners had already found a way to play the game on the tablet …

Finally a bit of a shake-up this week on the Steam top ten product charts, as Borderlands 2 has seized the top spot ahead of its launch. On top of that, the game’s DLC season pass offering also clawed its way onto the list finishing in the tenth position. The …

Within three days of the release of the FIFA 13 demo on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, it has been downloaded a record-breaking 2 million times, EA has announced. The number is a 29 per cent increase over the demo download figures for FIFA 12 for the same period. The …

Game Retail CEO Martyn Gibbs tells MCV why Gamestation had to die and how its spirit will live on within a new GAME. So is it just the High Street stores that are being rebranded, or is it the website, too?It is everything. We are moving to one single brand …

The Prime Minister officially opened Sony DADC’s newly built Enfield distribution centre this morning, congratulating the firm on a speedy recovery. The original facility was burned down last August during the London Riots. Sony DADC temporarily operated out of a Hoddesdon centre while it constructed an expanded warehouse on the …