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FIFA 12 has topped the UK games retail charts for the second week in a row ahead of Modern Warfare 3. The football game claimed the last No.1 of 2011 for the week ending December 31st, despite a week-on-week drop in sales of 27 per cent. It’s the second year …
Read More »EA, Nintendo and Sony retract SOPA support
But Entertainment Software Association still backs the bill
Read More »Andy Payne awarded OBE
MCV is delighted to be the first to congratulate Andy Payne on tonight being awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Payne is known to almost everybody in the UK industry and is one of the most widely liked and respected executives in gaming. As well as his …
Read More »Taxation as a tool
The frontier boss looks at the impact UK tax systems have on the high tech industries
Read More »Best Games of 2011 – Industry Picks
We all know which games you liked the most this year – we only have to look at the charts to figure that out. But what about the people that make up the games industry? MCV asks a number of recognisable games from publishing and journalism what their top picks …
Read More »Engine firms must adapt for digital devs – Crytek
CryEngine boss Carl Jones says dev pipelines need to be 'super-fast and robust'
Read More »Media Create: We would have liked Vita to have sold more
The latest figures from Japanese stats body Media Create shows that the PlayStation Vita claimed a sell-through of around 65 per cent over its opening weekend. It pins the two-day sales figures at 325k units for the weekend of December 17th and 18th. In total Sony shipped in the region …
Read More »Square Enix member information ‘not compromised’
Servers to go back online 'by end of December' after internal investigation into security breach
Read More »Kingdom Hearts 3D named and dated
Newly-named RPG Dream Drop Distance will bring Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts franchise to 3DS in 2012. The game was originally announced as Kingdom Hearts 3D at E3 2010 and was featured in a list of major third-party franchises heading to Nintendo’s new handheld. As with previous Kingdom Hearts titles, it …
Read More »Sony Tablet S gets PS3 controller compatibility
Free mini-game collection Ape Escape included in latest update
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