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You can stop YouTubers and Twitch users from streaming your games, but should you? Rouse Legal partner Arty Rajendra reveals the legalities and opportunities around this new form of games media Online streaming can be extremely lucrative. A recent piece by Forbes reported that streamers can earn up to $100,000 …
Read More »Sponsored Feature: QV Software
It’s responsible for the Pacific distribution of some of the biggest brands in video games, including Koch Media and Turtle Beach. MCV speaks with QV Software’s CEO, Paul Elliot Can you tell us a bit about QV Software? We’re an interactive entertainment specialist, and a games and accessories distributor based …
Read More »How did Xbox do? The UK games industry delivers its verdict
You know what we thought about Microsoft’s 2015 E3 press conference (spoiler: It was good), but what about the rest of the games industry? We asked leading figures in retail, development and publishing to deliver their analysis of Microsoft’s epic E3 showcase. Here is what they said: A strong and …
Read More »Insight: The new age of advertising
505 Games’ SVP of global brand Tim Woodley, a former marketing boss at Activision and Codemasters, shares his experiences with the rapidly changing landscape for video games promotion It would be a brave person to argue that the rate of change in our industry is pedestrian. What is perhaps often …
Read More »Bandai on the run: How Bandai Namco plans to stay on top in the UK
It seems that Pac-Man is celebrating his birthday in style. 2015 marks the 35th anniversary of Bandai Namco’s spherical superstar, and the publisher has kicked off the year by rocketing to the top of the UK charts. Nearly a quarter of all boxed games sold in May were Bandai Namco …
Read More »Peter Molyneux to speak at Guildford G3 games expo in July
A free networking expo will take place next month, aiming to showcase the games talent in and around Guildford. The town counts among its residents No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games, EA, LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule, Fable outlet Lionhead, Godus firm 22cans, Supermassive Games and Ubisoft. Set for the evening …
Read More »Volume has a release date
The next game from the creator of Thomas Was Alone has a summer release date. Volume will be released on PS4, Vita and Steam on August 18th. It will support Cross Buy on the consoles. It had been suggested previously that the game would hit PlayStation around a month before …
Read More »Alternative Vices – why media giant Vice is turning its attention to video games
If you’re not a ‘hip’, ‘cool’ millennial, you might not have heard of Vice. Founded in Canada in 1994, the media brand has gone on to become an online juggernaut that operates across 36 countries. It has become famous for its iconoclastic and edgy reporting that touches everything from investigative …
Read More »Are game bundles dead? Find out in this week’s issue of MCV
In this week’s MCV, we speak to publishers, developers and companies in the bundling sector about the challenges facing that part of the industry. Humble, Curve, Size Five Games, IndieGala and UKIE all share their insight into the huge sector. We also speak to the to SVP of communications at …
Read More »YouTube signs Geoff Keighley for E3 livestream
Former Spike Video Game Awards host Geoff Keighley will be the face of YouTube’s extensive live coverage of E3 later this month. Keighley will front a 12-hour stream on June 15th. YouTube has for years partnered with gaming’s largest media outlets to provide coverage of the expo, but this year …
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