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Steam’s Big Picture mode will hit open beta early this week, if a report from The New York Times is to be believed. Over the weekend the mainstream news outlet ran a profile piece on Valve, which among other items claimed Valve’s effort to bring PC gaming to the living …

Xbox Live Arcade’s Summer of Arcade promotion apparently didn’t carry the same appeal this year as it has in the past. Eurogamer’s examination of a Gamasutra report reveals generally low first week player figures for the promotion’s titles. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD – 98,000 players Deadlight – 53,000 players …

A notable bit of info has made its way out of last month’s NPD report: The software division’s chart-topper Darksiders II moved just 247,000 units during the period. The NPD Group passed the revealing figure onto GI.biz late last week. It points to how comparably weak the retail market is …

Valve has released Steam’s latest top ten products chart, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once more coming out ahead. The order of things may have remained undisturbed had it not been for the introduction of XCOM: Enemy Unknown to the chart. Pre-orders for the game have it making a strong debut …

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In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Lewis Digby departs Nintendo’s UK team and we look at the best job opportunities. Nintendo PR manager heads to GameloftLewis Digby has left Nintendo UK to join French software company Gameloft as marketing and PR manager. I’ve had …

The Indian national team, which recently beat Cameroon to lift the Nehru Cup, has surprisingly been included in in the list of national teams in FIFA 13, as revealed by a list on the FIFA Soccer Blog. It’s unclear if the Indian team has been licensed or if it will …

Some would have you believe journalists and publishers are constantly at war. MCV gives PRs a chance to have their say on working with the media Dominic Carey UK Xbox PR, MicrosoftI personally feel like the relationship between journalists and PRs is in a good place. In my experience, honesty …

Amazon adds another major publisher to the list on the heels of Fire HD reveal