Publishing

'Figures beyond our control', insists creative industries network

The Indian national team, which recently beat Cameroon to lift the Nehru Cup, has surprisingly been included in in the list of national teams in FIFA 13, as revealed by a list on the FIFA Soccer Blog. It’s unclear if the Indian team has been licensed or if it will …

Amazon adds another major publisher to the list on the heels of Fire HD reveal

It may sound like an obvious statement, but Activision has been forced to clarify that it is indeed the publisher of Vita shooter Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified. "Activision is the publisher, but we also have a partnership with Sony to bundle Declassified with the PlayStation Vita," was the …

New partnership expands free-to-play racer across Western Europe too

The PlayStation Vita’s security protocols have been breached. The hacker who cracked Amazon’s Kindle, Yifan Lu, claims to have constructed a working loader that is able to run some very basic unofficial code on the handheld. While the playing of PSP homebrew on Vita has been working for some time, …

You quite liked the look of those Limited Edition Borderlands 2 Top Trumps packs, didn’t you? Well, you’re in luck – MCV has ten packs to give away to our loyal, beautiful and intellectually gifted readership. And we’re asking so very little in return. Called Guns Guns Guns, the SKU …

Over the past eight months more than $50m has been put toward game campaigns on Kickstarter. A Kickstarter blog post entitled ‘The Year of the Game’ breaks down games meteoric rise on the service since it started in 2009. The numbers count for digital games, as well as board and …

Office to focus on development for Unreal Engine

Document with power to influence government policy lists nation's games sector as having a gross value of £0