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Brand new event from Develop's sister publication will recognise the burgeoning UK eSports market, launches September next year
Read More »Towerfall Ascension comes to Vita this week
TowerFall Ascension will arrive on PS Vita later this week, developer Matt Thorson has announced. A post on the PlayStation blogreveals both the base game and its Dark World Expansion will hit Sony’s handheld this Tuesday, November 15th. The Vita edition features an ad-hoc wireless co-op option to play against …
Read More »Peter Moore heads up EA’s new eSports division
Industry veteran becomes EVP and Chief Competition Officer for the 'Competitive Gaming Division'
Read More »Xbox One Wireless Adapter no longer limited to Windows 10
Consumers can now use their Xbox One gamepad with their Windows 7 and 8.1. Previously the Xbox Wireless Adapter – which connects an Xbox One controller to a PC – was to be limited to Windows 10. This announcement comes via Xbox’s Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson), who revealed on …
Read More »New patent hints at Nintendo NX controller design
Platform holder designs gamepad device with full LCD or OLED display
Read More »Spencer "fully expects" another Xbox after the Xbox One
Cloud computing, streaming, smartphones – there are all sorts of tools one could use to form an argument that this generation of consoles will be the last. Indeed, folk have been saying this since before the release of PS4 and Xbox One. Yet this generation is tracking well ahead of …
Read More »Read the jam-packed final MCV of 2015 here
What did UK games retail really think of 2015? Which companies helped them out the most, and what was their game of the year? Find all this out and more in MCV’s Annual Retail Survey in which we spoke to over 130 UK games stores. We also round up the …
Read More »Microsoft crowned best UK publisher by games retail
For the second year running, Xbox has been voted the UK’s best publisher by retailers. In 2014, the firm was voted for by 26 per cent of stores, but this year this grew to 31 per cent of retailers asked. Store managers cited the platform holder’s strong first-party line-up, which …
Read More »EA opens eSports division, headed by Peter Moore
Current EA COO Peter Moore has landed a new role at the publisher, heading up a brand new eSports division. Its official name is the EA Competitive Gaming Division (CGD), and Moore’s new title is Executive Vice President and Chief Competition Officer. His aim is to further the eSports aspirations …
Read More »Why new VC firm Presence Capital is focused on virtual reality start-ups
$10m inaugural funding will be investing in VR and AR projects that could 'transform the world'
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