Media & PR

Namco Bandai have announced a single screening of the animated feature Tekken: Blood Vengeance to take place in Sydney on 27 July. This screening will be one of a very select number worldwide, and the only screening to take place in Australia. Tekken Blood Vengeance 3D is being produced by …

Some 100 staff are to go from Future Publishing UK in the wake of a trading statement that showed group revenues down as pressures on print mount. An internal memo to staff from Future Publishing’s UK CEO Mark Wood has broken the news to staff today, MCV understands. Around 10 …

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Bethesda’s upcoming FPS Rage has benefited from a string of early ads to build excitement well ahead of release. The publisher kicked off its Rage marketing action plan around half a year ahead of its October 7th release to set the new 360, PS3 and PC IP apart from other …

MCV has launched a Reports section within its new website, from which readers can buy and download some of the best games market research available. It will offer reports from respected third party companies and from the in-house specialist journalists. Prices range from under 50 to around 500. The development …

The man behind the most important games reviews site of the internet has said that the world’s games critics are neglecting their obligation to review the whole spectrum of games on the market. Destructoid reports that when asked in the A Jumps B Shoots podcast what must be done to …

Following a string of 33 separate raids across Italy and Switzerland last night, 15 suspected members of hacking group Anonymous have been arrested. Ars Technica reports that 14 suspects have been detained in Italy and one, who is known as ‘Phre’ and described as a ‘leader’ of the group, in …

Smart phones, social networks and other relatively low-entry gaming platforms have spawned a new wave of indie developers and fresh IP. Not since the late ‘70s and early ‘80s days of ‘back bedroom’ coding have so many flowers bloomed, or has it been so easy to get a gaming concept …

As you might have noticed, MCV has overhauled its web presence, adding new features and a focus on registration. In short, the new MCV website has been built to give you all the content you already love, packaged in a form conducive to our web-centric, socially-networked age. It’s all part …

This latest few hundred words of early-morning, blurry-eyed ranting may come on the back of Sony’s confirmation of the PSN Pass. But it’s not aimed at Sony. Well, it is, insomuch as it’s aimed at absolutely every publisher in the industry. There are divisive opinions about what has become known …