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Voting for the charities that GamesAid will supprt in 2012 ends on Sunday. The UK video games industry charity has named the 14 charitable organisations in the running to receive support. GamesAid members are invited to vote for the charity they would like to see being officially supported. The focus …
Read More »Gem backs Borderlands 2 with Xbox competition
2K Games’ distributor Gem is running a number of promotions in support of Borderlands 2. The firm (which has also worked on the ‘Guns, Guns, Guns’ Top Trumps pre-order campaign), is running a Facebook competition. Simply by liking the GemGroup page, you can win an Xbox 360 250GB Console and …
Read More »Angry Birds spin-off Bad Piggies coming to retail
Rovio’s new Angry Birds spin-off is coming to retail next month. A PC version of Bad Piggies will be released by Focus Multimedia, and the publisher says the game will even get free DLC in the form of extra levels – just like the game’s iOS equivalent. Bad Piggies, as …
Read More »Slender sequel will terrify you all over again
Fresh from scaring the bejesus out of the gaming world in June, Slender creator Mark Hadley has revealed he is working on a sequel – The Arrival. Slender: The Eight Pages was a free experimental PC game that gained a cult following and was extensively covered by the specialist press. …
Read More »European World of Warcraft launch event will be live streamed on YouTube
Blizzard is hosting seven major launch events across Europe for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. The festivities take place Monday evening (September 24th) in Paris, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Cologne and Stockholm. But for those that are unable to attend, Blizzard is live streaming the event over YouTube. The …
Read More »Poor release schedule hits HMV’s sales
HMV’s sales have declined 11.6 per cent for the 20 weeks ending September 15th, 2012. It’s disappointing and is in line with how the retailer has been performing all year. HMV says a quiet summer of releases, plus a combination of The Olympics, The Queen’s Jubilee and the Euros, has …
Read More »Kinect and Move implementation was not a distraction for FIFA 13 devs
One of the new elements in FIFA this year is the inclusion of Kinect and Move. But is this really what FIFA needs? Or are these just introductions to please the platforms holders? It could have been a distraction, but we as a team always endeavor to ensure that what …
Read More »Amazon’s games boss joins mobile publisher
Amazon’s video games boss has left the retailer for a role at mobile publisher and developer Tag Games. Graham Chambers – whose other significant roles over a 20-year career has included MD at Gauntlet Entertainment, MD at Ubisoft and sales director at Nintendo – takes the role of head of …
Read More »FIFA, Wii U and ten pages on DVD and Blu-ray in this week’s MCV
This week’s MCV is now available to download – and it is jam-packed with features and stories, including our bumper 10-page guide to the DVD and Blu-ray sector. In this 88-page edition, you’ll also find an interview with FIFA’s boss David Rutter, former Gamestation staff discuss their memories of the …
Read More »EA’s David Rutter on keeping FIFA great… and his love for Fluid Football and New Star Soccer
There was a time when FIFA wasn’t the unstoppable juggernaut that it is today. A time when it offered just dull, lifeless football in its bid to grind its way to the top of the Chart-Track league table. Much has been written about FIFA’s rise to prominence since then. Of …
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