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FIFA 13 is less than a month away and Game4u is giving MCV India readers who’ve already preordered the game the opportunity to get the game for free. Here’s how it works. Simply preorder FIFA 13 at Game4u.com on the platform of your choice. Once you’ve done that, input your …

Source claims vice presidents Bill Mooney and Brian Birtwistle have left the company

Free-to-play title Middle Manager of Justice to be first of free new titles

The first game from Manipal, Karnataka-based Ironjaw Studios, titled Super Rollers, is out now on the iOS App Store. Priced at $0.99, Super Rollers is a physics-based puzzle game set in an alternate dimension where the world as we know it, as well as everything in it, is flat”. You …

EA labels president Frank Gibeau has told to Bloomberg TV that the next Xbox and PlayStation would launch in about a year’s time. We’re into the sixth or seventh year now of this generation of hardware and so it’s a mature market,” said Gibaeu. The new hardware is going to …

Madden 13 sold 900,000 units in the first 24 hours following its launch, according to EA’s internal estimates. The figure is a seven per cent increase from the same period for Madden 12. EA added that the game set a record for number of day-one users playing a Madden title …

Valve has launched its crowdsource-based indie game selection application Steam Greenlight. The site had around two dozen titles listed shortly after launch this morning, and at current stands at 379 games. "We’ve been working on this feature for the last few months with the input from a group of indie …

Six Flags has tabbed Resident Evil 6 for the amusement parks’ Fright Night festivities coming in October. Capcom has partnered with GameStop and the theme park to bring the latest in the Resident Evil franchise to parks nationwide. Pre-ordering a copy of the game will get you a discounted ticket …

Adobe pressured by 'strategic partners' to make browser plug-in available again on Android

Future Publishing’s independent Nintendo-focused magazine Nintendo Gamer printed its final issue today. Nintendo Gamer will continue to run its website but the magazine will cease to exist. The magazine’s editor Nick Ellis wrote a farewell note in the final issue stating that the move "draws the curtain on 20 years …