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MCV is pleased to announce its sponsors for the MCV Awards 2017. DingIt.TV will be the Headline Sponsor for this year’s awards, while Aardvark Swift, Gamescom, OPM Recruitment and Playwire Media will be backing the event as Event Sponsors. Twitch has been named as the exclusive Livestream Partner for the …
Read More »Xbox’s Mike Ybarra and Kareem Choudhry promoted to CVP
Xbox’s Mike Ybarra and Kareem Choudhry have been promoted, a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed to MCV. News of their promotions first surfaced yesterday after Windows Centralwrote a post based on information from "sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans" but MCV can now confirm this is indeed the case. Ybarra will now …
Read More »The Walking Dead: A New Frontier coming to retail on March 3rd
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier will be arriving at European retailers on March 3rd, Telltale announced today. The game will come on a special season pass disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles (not Switch, sadly, despite being released on the same day as …
Read More »Oculus and Best Buy close 200 demo units
200 of the 500 demo units to close
Read More »Nutaku launches crowdfunding site for X-rated games, Kimochi Red Light
100 per cent of the money raised from crowdfunding will go to the campaigning developers
Read More »Facebook to close 200 Oculus Rift demo stations in the US
200 Oculus Rift demo stations are to be closed at Best Buy stores in the US, according to the Business Insider. The website reports that Facebook ordered the closure of its VR corners due to store performance,” according to an internal memo. An anonymous Best Buy worker told BI that …
Read More »Resident Evil 7 claims second No.1 in Japan
Capcom’s new Resident Evil title is once again No.1 in Japan according to market data from Famitsu. The game saw a 82 per cent decline in sale in its second week on shelves, with 42,165 units shifted. The horror title still charted ahead of Pokmon Sun and Moon, which sold …
Read More »Entries now open for Women in Games Awards 2017
Entries are now open for Women in Games Awards 2017, with a deadline of March 10th 2017 for nominations. This year we will once again kick off our campaign to recognise the achievements of Women in the UK Games Industry. 2017 will see us recognising the plethora of female talent …
Read More »Castlevania Netflix series is coming later this year
Producer Adi Shankar, who previously worked on movies Dredd and Lone Survivor, has revealed he’s working on a Castlevania series for Netflix, which, according to him, will be the western world’s first good video game adaptation” (see original Facebook post below). The first season will launch this year, with season …
Read More »Fire Emblem Heroes made $5m in its first five days
Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima has given some insight into the company’s new mobile business. In an extensive interview with TIME, the exec says that its latest mobile release, Fire Emblem Heroes, has generated $5m in its first week on digital storefronts. If reports from Sensor Tower are to be believed,$2.9m …
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