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Valve announced the launch of Steam Trading which allows users of the digital content platform to exchange in-game items and gifts with other members of the Steam Community. Valve provided anitem inventoryof all the items available for swapping as well as aFAQ. The firm pointed out that trading did not …

MCV laughed at the idea just last month, but if there’s one thing you know about Nintendo it’s that you never know what it will do next. Scans of the latest issue of weekly Japanese games magazine Famitsu reveal that the rumoured second analogue stick add-on for 3DS is in …

Hardware manufacturer AMD has confirmed a data breach on servers housing codes for free copies of Codemasters racer Dirt 3. It was reported yesterday that anything in the region of 3m codes – which can be used to redeem a free copy of the game on Steam – had been …

The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA) has today confirmed the Digital Australia and New Zealand (DANZ) report for 11th October. The report, which was formally known as Interactive Australia, catalogues and analyses Australian interactive media usage, and has previously been used to demonstrate clear support for the R18+ classification …

SPY Mouse, the latest iOS game from Flight Control developer and all around success story Firemint, went straight to #1 in Australia. MCV talks to Firemint’s Logan Booker about why: What makes SPY Mouse the successor to Flight Control? With SPY mouse, we really wanted to build on the gameplay …

Customers pre-ordering and purchasing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from GAME will receive 4Gb USB dog tags containing ‘classified Call of Duty content’. The offer is available to purchasers of the Hardened edition (which contains the steelbook case, limited edition journal, founder status on Call of Duty: Elite plus …

Now That’s What I Call Music: Dance and Sing will hit shelves for Wii on November 11th with a revised name. The Wii exclusive from publisher Tubby Games was previously known as Now That’s What I Call Music: The Game, but has since had its name revised to help better …

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The former director of the US National Cyber Security Center has joined Sony to help fortify its PlayStation Network, months after the online service was struck by a massive data breach. Philip Reitinger, based in Washington DC, will join Sony as chief information security officer, Sony has said. The appointment …