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Intent Media has extended its offer of a free subscription to MCV magazine for all of its Twitter followers. MCV is not only the UK’s only weekly games trade mag – it’s also the only video games trade publication in the world to be released every seven days. If you …

The casual gaming giant has lifted the lid on its next mobile title: Popcorn Dragon for iOS. The game gives player control over a dragon and challenges them to pop kernels of popcorn using his ability to breath fly. They’ve also got to have the dragon eat as much of …

In a sector that is becoming more generic, where most newcomers can be described as World of Warcraft with…guns/lightsabers/robots (delete as appropriate)”, everyone is searching for a way to topple the market leader. Trion Worlds’ solution is to step away from what makes current MMO behemoths so popular, enticing gamers …

As of June this year, World of Warcraft had 11.1 million subscribers.Speak to any other MMO creator and they would bite your hand off for even a slice of that success. But to Blizzard, that number marks the game’s first decline in users since the title launched in 2005. Last …

Downloadable Xbox Live and PSN game Burnout Crash will be heading to the iPad and iPhone this year. EA’s Criterion Games studio has ported the top-down car crash game to Apple’s iOS platform. The publisher says it will arrive this holiday season” on iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 4. The …

NCsoft quite likes Europe. The Korean MMO giant has been making a lot of noise across the continent in recent months. In August it took to Gamescom to announce unique online adventure Wildstar, before revealing almost all the details for its anticipated Guild Wars sequel. And it gained a host …

Mass Effect was always advertised as a trilogy, but does that mean the release of the third game in March 2012 is the end? Studio co-founder Ray Muzyka says Mass Effect 3 is as much an entry point for new fans as it is the next step in setting up …

Ubisoft’s Just Dance for Wii was the surprise big hit of 2009. Now the series expands to the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms with Just Dance 3. Could Just Dance 3 be the biggest game in the series yet? This week we’re going to look at the Just Dance series …

The problem with interviewing a games firm about its new MMO is the inevitable question you must ask.So, when MCV met doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, the founders of BioWare, we asked it first, to get it out of the way. Not at all, no,” says Muzyka. We’re really …