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Ex-Zavvi head of games Patrick Kelly joined Play.com this week, and is already planning new ways to grow the firm’s games offer. Prior to joining Zavvi, Kelly had worked in games for Virgin Retail, and now replaces Gian Luzio at Play.com. Luzio joined The Hut as product director earlier this …

In the interests of fairness, we should also invite Microsoft, Gamestation Birmingham New Street, Rockstar North, HMV, Centresoft, Sony, Play.com and the managers of GAME Oxford Street to take a few bouquets. Winning at the MCV Awards is a huge achievement. Fighting through to become a Finalist and then gain …

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inFamous, one of Sony’s major 2009 PS3-exclusive releases, will arrive at UK retail on May 29th, MCV can confirm. Developed by Sucker Punch, inFamous takes a similar approach to the free-roaming sandbox Grand Theft Auto mechanic as was seen in Realtime Worlds’ Crackdown – granting the player super-human abilities with …

The benefits of freely downloadable DLC have been demonstrated this week by the re-entry of Valve’s Left 4 Dead in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 just days after the developer released hyped new DLC for the title. Last week saw the release of the Survival pack, a free …

Wii Fit is this week enjoying its fourth straight week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, taking its total tally of number ones to 13. In capturing the crown yet again it successfully fends off Atari’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena, which …

What has led Majesco to go direct?We’ve got the best ever line-up of games in our current portfolio in terms of breadth, quality and potential. We felt it was time for us to be completely responsible for those from day one – I think 100 per cent focus is the …

Microsoft’s European marketing boss for Xbox has questioned the continued concentration on Q4 and Christmas by publishers. David Gosen told MCV that he was concerned by the seasonality” of the UK trade – and called on suppliers to take more risks when choosing release dates for major titles. We still …

Japanese publisher Konami has reportedly decided to backtrack on plans to publish Atomic Games’ Iraq-based console FPS Six Days in Fallujah, Asahi reports. Konami announced a deal to bring the game to North America earlier this month, but merely hours after the news broke questions were already being asked about …

Publisher no longer associated with contentious Iraqi War title following sustained public outcry