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Ubisoft has announced that I Am Alive will be released on PC on September 13th. It will cost 11.99 and will available from Ubisoft’s Ubishop, Steam and other digital PC portals. I Am Alive was MCV’s very first Game of the Week earlier this month. The setting sees players struggling …
Read More »IN BRIEF: What’s Happened Today (August 23rd 2012)
If you’ve ever been to a game launch event in the UK the chances are that you’ve visited GAME’s Oxford Street store in London. Well, you’d better cherish that memory as the new-look Game Retail limited has confirmed that it won’t be renewing the lease on the property. It will …
Read More »EA’s Moore: ‘Next generation will give packaged goods a rebirth’
Electronic Arts may be spearheading the digital revolution, but discs aren’t dead yet, says COO Peter Moore. In an interview with MCV at Gamescom, the influential figure in fact predicted that packaged goods will be reborn when the much-discussed new generation of consoles arrives, even if the digital tipping point …
Read More »Molyneux forced to rename Curiosity; Game delayed to September
NASA’s Curiosity Rover may be 34.8m miles away from Earth, but that’s not stopping it causing a very terrestrial kerfuffle. Development favourite Peter Molyneux has revealed that a trademark issue with NASA means that he’s left looking for a new name for his debut iOS game, that until now has …
Read More »Read our Gamescom review in this week’s MCV
The latest edition of MCV isnow available digitally, and features our review of Gamescom 2012. This week’s issue contains words from EA COO Peter Moore, plus PlayStation Europe and UK discuss the relaunch of PlayStation Vita. And, of course, we bring you the latest charts data from Chart-Track, the PlayStation …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: It’s Borderlands! It’s 2D! It’s on a floppy disk!
There was no game called The Border Lands. It was not released in 1989. But the press pack that arrived with journalists today does a fantastic job of creating the authentic ‘80s gaming flavour. The Border Lands – a fantastic Borderlands 2 promo – claims to be a highly collectible …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Forrest joins Jagex, top jobs
In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, THQ PR cheif Sam Forrest has joins Jagex and we look at the best job vacancies. Sam Forrest takes top PR role at Jagex Former THQ PR chief Sam Forrest has joined online giant Jagex as director of …
Read More »3DS passes 7m in Japan, claims entire software Top Ten
The established Nintendo narrative amongst European journalists seems to be quite negative at the moment, but the story in Japan could hardly be better. The latest Media Create numbers for the region show that Nintendo’s 3DS was once again the best selling hardware of last week, shifting 111,857 units. This …
Read More »UK kids spend 12 days in front of screens throughout the summer hols
The summer holidays are nearly over – parents rejoice! – but how much time have your kids spent gaming this summer? Creative toy company Galt questioned 2,000 British parents and concluded that the average UK school child will spend 143 hours and 36 minutes this holiday either playing games, watching …
Read More »Borderlands 2 trailer shows off PhysX capabilities
Part of the Nvidia and Borderlands 2 cross-promotion involves heavy implementation of PhysX technology in the PC version of Gearbox’s upcoming role-playing shooter, and a new trailer released today shows the full extent of PhysX implementation in the game. From cloth fluttering in the wind and metallic enemies slumping to …
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