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The Guardianhas publishedan guide to UK iPhone 4S mobile tariffs, concluding that some two-year contract deals are cheaper than buying the new iPhone outright on a SIM-only contract. "The entire phone contract field is a thicket," wrote Guardian journalist Charles Arthur. The conclusion that two-year contracts are better than SIM-only …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Rage and Dark Souls enter Top Three
The new releases are coming thick and fast but nothing this week is able to stop FIFA 12 claiming its second No.1 of the year in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. Incredibly, FIFA 12’s second week on the market is so big as to claim 13th in …
Read More »Bikers raid Apple’s Covent Garden store
Apple’s Covent Garden store was the victim of a smash and grab raid this morning after at least seven moped riders broke the front window and made off with goods. Two men have since been arrested by the Metropolitan Police. Detectives are appealing for witnesses and information after a smash-and-grab …
Read More »VIDEO: The new single player Modern Warfare 3 trailer
Not a football fan? Were you out on Friday night? Either way, MCV is here to make sure you don’t miss out by bringing you the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailer. As revealed by MCV last week, the video debuted on UK TV during the interval in …
Read More »BBC Newsnight to feature Livingstone-Hope Skills Review
The games industry will get its chance to speak to the nation next week, with the BBC’s Newsnight programme scheduled to run a feature on the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review. The Department for Education is due to break its eight-month silence on the Skills Review paper, which launched in February this …
Read More »Tax break hopes return as Watson joins Labour front line
Games industry supporter Tom Watson appointed Labour Party deputy chair
Read More »ANALYSIS: Dark Souls and the core gamer
MCV looks at what the arrival of the toughest game, Namco Bandai’s Dark Souls, ever says about the market… Expanding the games industry has had the inevitable effect of ‘dumbing down’ the more challenging elements of interactive entertainment. New interfaces and new audiences mean that games have to be accessible, …
Read More »Transformers: Fall of Cybertron confirmed
A successor to the popular Transformers: War for Cybertron has been announced. As revealed by US mag GameInformer, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has been built very much around fan feedback from the last title, with Activision saying that developer High Moon Studios has gone back to the drawing board” for …
Read More »Brand Map: Call of Duty
This week we’re going to look at playing habits for Call of Duty using the GameVision Brand Map. The Brand Map is available to download from the MCV?Reports page online. We asked 6,722 gamers about the games, of whom 1,789 had played one in the last six months; 556 of …
Read More »One week to go for 30 Under 30
There’s only a week left for you to make sure your favourite games industry rising star gets the recognition they deserve in this year’s 30 Under 30. Every year this hugely popular feature highlights the achievements and exertions of the industry’s younger execs working across the UK. It is sponsored …
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