Media & PR

Media giant IGN is the latest big name to sign up for this year’s MCV awards. The firm is sponsoring the New Game Brand award. Those in the running for the award include DayZ, Disney Infinity, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Rust, Starbound and The Last of Us. "IGN prides itself …

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey says UKIE deserves credit for securing tax breaks for UK games developers. The MP’s comments came in response to a question about a press release from rival trade body TIGA, which took credit for securing the tax breaks. Tax relief for UK games developers were confirmed …

Online games portal Curse has signed up as a partner for this year’s MCV Awards. Curse joins the long list of partners for this year’s event, which takes place on April 10th at the London Lancaster Hotel and will be hosted by Channel 4 presenter and stand-up comedian Adam Hills. …

The 2014 Golden Joystick Awards will take place at a new venue, MCV can reveal. The event will be held at the London Indig02 on Friday, October 24th, with the aftershow party to take place at the Brooklyn Bowl, also in the O2 arena. Future says the party will include …

Industry charity GamesAid is giving one generous soul the chance to win a PlayStation 4. In celebration of this year’s horse spectacular, anyone who donates 10 to GamesAid (details below) will be eligible for the competition. Entrants will then need to email their name to david.walker@live.co.uk to be considered. Horses …

In the wake of last night’s reveal of Amazon’s Fire TV, MCV got in touch with the retailer for an interview. Amazon can be a secretive company. Much like Apple, it’s a business happy to throw extravagant over-hyped press events, but when it comes to actually talking to the media …

Rude ministers, increasing competition from Canada and a clueless government: TIGA founder Fred Hasson reveals the origins of the UK's fight for video games tax credits

Star Citizen will not be sold, the many backers of the space simulator have been assured. The pledge comes as Chris Roberts’ crowdfunded title passes the astronomical $41m funding mark. To answer [those] worrying about the possibility of Cloud Imperium being acquired by another, bigger company – don’t worry! We …

John Carmack has spoken positively of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus and believes the firm gets "the big picture" for virtual reality’s potential. "There is a case to be made for being like Valve, and trying to build a new VR ecosystem like Steam from the ground up," he said. "This …

Broadcasting platform Twitch has announced its new infrastructure addition in Paris, France – a move that will bolster the service’s stability across Europe. We’ve been hard at work delivering on a promise to bring more capacity to Europe,” customer experience director Jason Maestas wrote on Twitch’s official blog. More capacity …