InMCV’s weekly roundup of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Green Man Gaming hires Square’s Bateman and we look at the best vacanices. Ben Bateman joins Green Man Gaming’s Playfire team Online games retailer Green Man Gaming has appointed Ben Bateman as its new community development manager for …

There are less than 800 specialist games stores on the UK High Street, according to MCV research. While GAME has maintained its store count of just over 320, HMV and Blockbuster saw their retail footprints decimated when the two High Street chains fell into administration earlier this year. Blockbuster lost …

Are publishers like EA, Ubisoft and Activision being smart by releasing their games as cross-generation titles this Christmas? I actually think they are hedging their bets for sales’ sake. E3 and its fallout has proven that this Christmas we’re due a transition with some unprecedented activity. We’ve never had such …

UK retailers have warned that consumers may hold-off buying PS4 or Xbox One in order to play GTA V. The strong current-gen line-up this year will mean the next-gen transition will be slower than before, experts say. Especially as Xbox One and PS4 are not backwards compatible. And games bosses …

Indian PC gamers have taken to Facebook and Twitter to air their discontent at the rising prices of EA’s PC games. Using the #EAPCIndia hashtag, designed to give Indian gamers a single platform to make themselves heard on the issue, gamers continue to share their opinions on the matter. While …

UPDATE 2:The source, who has requested to remain anonymous, has now retracted their statement to a simple "no comment". So we’re none the wiser, if we’re being honest. Lots of other sites have had it suggested to them that the headset rumour isn’t true, however. UPDATE 1:It has been confirmed …

Retailer GAME has chosen to highlight Ouya’s emulation functionality as part of its promotion for the console. GAME’s Ouya splash page features, amongst other things, the logo for popular SNES emulator Super GNES. The free software allows users to run any game for which they have downloaded a ROM (a …

Yesterday, Microsoft Japan president Yasuyuki Higuchi said that the Xbox One would be delayed a little in Japan compared to North America, calling it a ‘Tier 2 country’ as far as the console’s launch strategy goes. That’s not surprising since both predeeding Xbox consoles have performed poorly in Japan, but …

Aphelio's Kraig Walker on why some forms of elitism in gaming can be positive

PlayStation boss Andrew House saysthere was never any plan for PS4 to block second-hand games – and publishers weren’t asking for it either. Although Sony reputedly ‘won’ E3 after declaring it won’t introduce measures to curtail the use of second hand games on its system, the confirmation during its E3 …