Consoles

Lara Croft is a permanent fixture at the MCV offices. Eidos had mocked up an image of her reading your favourite trade weekly to celebrate our first birthday (which was 1999). It still stands proud in our office today, reminding us of a time when the Britsoft pin-up was one …

Dark Souls has made its name on being hard. Like, really hard. And while its success has come on the back of the stiff challenge it offers – and conversely on the achievement felt by those who topple it – the game’s director Hidetaka Miyazakiis considering the introduction of an …

Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride and others lead third-party charge

Konami has revealed the next instalment in its popular stealth series – Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. And furthermore, despite the amazing debut video – which can be seen below – the publisher insists that the game is bound for current-gen consoles. It’s also a multiplatform release, meaning that for …

A protracted development cycle normally means one thing – RED FLAG! DANGER! POTENTIAL STINKER APPROACHING! But LA Noire exists to prove that there’s always an exception to the rule. The game endured a highly troubled seven year development cycle that saw it begin as a Sony-funded PS3 exclusive in 2003 …

Gearbox has plenty in the present to smile about with Borderlands 2, but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t excited about what it has in the works going forward. We’ve got a few things going on right now that we haven’t talked about but that’ll appear later,” company president Randy …

Happy Wars to be first microtransaction game on platform

We’ve been honest about this from the off – we’re doing this only for the clicks. We started with the headline MCV posts Grand Theft Auto V screens to try and generate clicks”. Then we went with More GTA V screens for you… but still no release date”. But now …

The days of closed platforms like PS1, PS2 and PS3 are coming to an end, admits Sony. PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan told MCV the firm is entering a ‘big bad world where there are no rules’ and that it is re-thinking what it means to be a platform holder. …

You shouldn’t worry too much, as MCVuk.com will continue updating over the bank holiday. But on the off chance that you need something else to read over the long sunny break (by that we mean rainy, obviously) then MCV has compiled a few links that we judge to be worthy …