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Ukie hosted its second biennial Westminster Games Day in Parliament on Monday, in partnership with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Video Games, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Sega, EA and King. In attendance were over 24 MPs and peers and over 100 officials and researchers from Parliament, all of whom took …

Sean Cleaver talks with Robot Gentleman's creative director Dominik Gotojuch and art director Juliusz Zenkner about the studio's quirky culture and how the growth of a smaller scene can lead to greater things

Welcome to the new MCV website. The new website launched today and brings the brand right up-to-date. It’s fully responsive, so you’ll be able to read the latest games industry news on the move as easily as at your desktop.  The site is the final piece in a year-long strategy …

When NIS America published Omiyasoft’s turn-based strategy game Culdcept Revolt on 3DS earlier this month, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was the start of a brand-new franchise for the company. After all, this is the first time a Culdcept game has ever been released in Europe. In fact, the …

Boxed specialist Sold Out has partnered with Terrible Posture Games and Grip Digital to publish the physical console versions of first-person bullet-hell shooter Mothergunship in 2018, the company has announced. Arriving on PS4 and Xbox One and digitally on PC, Mothergunship is the spiritual successor to 2014’s Tower of Guns, …

Sony has announced a brand-new games publishing label that’s set to bring indie games to a number of different platforms – including the Nintendo Switch. Rather than come under the expertise of Sony Interactive Entertainment, however, the new Unties label will be operated by Sony Music Entertainment and will largely …

Fnatic and music streaming service Deezer have today announced a partnership that will see Deezer become Fnatic’s first ever musical partner. What is a musical partner? It means that Fnatic team members will be listening to music via Deezer and sharing their personal playlists to Deezer users in Europe, North …

The response from the DCMS department says that a close eye is being kept on the situation despite already being addressed in March 2017

Entertainment speclalist EXG and figurine manufacturer Cable Guys have announced a collaboration to create two new phone and controller holders to celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: WWII. Launching on October 28th ahead of the game’s release on November 3rd, the two new Call of Duty Cable Guys will …

Bethesda has opened up about its recent marketing campaign for its upcoming shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Launched on Twitter over the weekend, the short video showed an in-game Nazi being punched in the face with the slogan, ‘If you are a Nazi, GTFO’ in huge letters either side …