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At least eight big games publishers will exhibit at MCM Expo next month. Nintendo, Capcom, Warner Bros, THQ, Square Enix, Tecmo Koei, PQube and Atari will be attending with more to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Capcom’s recently announced Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition will also get its …

The game that ‘will beat Call of Duty’ is coming to the UK via Lace Mamba Global. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is a World War II FPS and has been championed by the press. PC Gamer US even wrote a piece entitled: ‘Why Red Orchestra 2 will beat …

A fierce fortnight of rumours concerning the Wii 2 has been rounded off with official confirmation of a new Nintendo home console. The platform holder confirmed as much in a note attached to its most recent financial report. It confirms that a successor” to the popular motion sensing machine will …

While there’s no official confirmation of Sony’s swoop for Swedish download firm Ztorm, our spies say the deal is as good as done. It’s another sign of New World meeting Old. But it says a lot about how the Old World often adapts to the New – by eating it …

It’s a nightmare for PS3 owners, it’s a nightmare for content providers but most of all it’s a huge nightmare for Sony. A long bank holiday weekend is often a golden chance for gamers to get some serious hands on time with their consoles. But at the time of writing …

THQ’s new IP Homefront beat Pokmon and a string of high-profile EA titles to become the biggest selling game of March. The result – combined with strong sales of WWE and uDraw – helped THQ leap up the publisher rankings. The firm is now amongst the Top Five publishers in …

A new Doctor Who 3DS case will reach retail next month. The Doctor Who and Daleks Accessory Pack is due on May 10th, 2011 with an RRP of 14.99. It arrives shortly after the first new episodes in the brand new Doctor Who series, which kicks off this weekend (Saturday, …

Sarah Kaye has been waiting to take the games hot seat at Tesco for over six months. She was recruited from Activision in June last year to eventually succeed former games chief John Stanhope. Stanhope is part of Tesco’s director development programme and as a result was recently tasked with …

Specialist PC publisher Excalibur will release a boxed version of digital hit Zombie Driver. The action title was nominated for Racing Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards last year. It was previously download-only and was originally released in 2009 by Exor. Now Excalibur is bringing it to …

Committed readers of MCV will know that the contrast between last week’s cover stories and this week’s couldn’t be starker. But such is the diversity of games now that one week we might be talking analytics and digital downloads, the next hoary but no less important topics like supermarkets and …