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New partnership expands free-to-play racer across Western Europe too

BioShock. Civlization. Mafia. 2K Games has plenty of popular franchises – but it has a new champion when it comes to pre-orders. As of today, Borderlands 2 has become the publisher’s most pre-ordered title in the UK of all time. The wacky Gearbox-developed role-playing shooter is due for release on …

NCsoft has revealed that recent MMO release Guild Wars 2 has topped the software charts in ten separate European countries. One of them, of course, is the UK, there the game entered the All Formats listings last Monday at No.1, knocking Square Enix action outing Sleeping Dogs from its perch. …

MCV presents the first interview with Martyn Gibbs, the respected games retail expert who took over Game after the group went into administration in April. Understandably, Game Retail as it is now known (having dispensed with the all-capitals ‘GAME’) has not put talking to the media at the top of …

Sony has officially confirmed a new Killzone bundle that’s heading to retail. Called the Killzone Trilogy, it unsurprisingly includes PS3 titles Killzone 2 and Killzone 3 as well as an HD reworking of the PS2 original, known now as Killzone HD. Also in the box is all of the multiplayer …

The PlayStation Vita’s security protocols have been breached. The hacker who cracked Amazon’s Kindle, Yifan Lu, claims to have constructed a working loader that is able to run some very basic unofficial code on the handheld. While the playing of PSP homebrew on Vita has been working for some time, …

This week’s MCV is now available to download – and it is jam-packed with great content. Weighing in at 112 pages, this is our biggest issue this year. It features the first interview with Game Retail since its restructuring, our chat with Behtesda’s Pete Hines, a look at the UK …

You quite liked the look of those Limited Edition Borderlands 2 Top Trumps packs, didn’t you? Well, you’re in luck – MCV has ten packs to give away to our loyal, beautiful and intellectually gifted readership. And we’re asking so very little in return. Called Guns Guns Guns, the SKU …

Having enjoyed a brief pseudo-launch last week, yesterday Super Hexagon finally arrived proper on the Apple App Store. And if your Twitter feed is anything like this author’s, last night was abuzz with chat about the title. And for every ‘Wow this is amazing’ there was a common caveat. I …

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