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The new owner of UK publisher Curve says it is ‘absolutely’ open to further mergers and acquisitions. Curve was acquired by Kuju-owner The Catalis Group last week. Kuju and Curve were then merged to form a new business: Curve Digital Entertainment. The firm’s new boss Dominic Wheatley – the co-founder …

Disney’s Maker Studios has given Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg the financial backing to launch his own online video network. Variety reports that it’s called Revelmode. What it is remains unclear, although joining PewDiePie will be a host of other YouTube talent including Cinnamon Toast Ken, Cutiepiemarzia, Dodger, Emmablackery, JackSepticEye, Jelly, KwebbelKop …

Half-year revenue up to £10.9 million as company moved to self-publishing model

Warner Bros has revealed that LEGO Marvel Super Heroes has sold over 1m units in the UK. Its statement comes ahead of the upcoming LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, which arrives on January 29th. Marvel Super Heroes was the second-largest LEGO launch to-date, with 84,400 units. The only bigger launch was 2008’s …

The Oculus Rift is too expensive and lacking in must-have games, UK stores have warned. But VR is an exciting new area for the global games market and, in time, Oculus Rift could still emerge as the market leader. MCV contacted leading games stores following the news that the first …

Audio specialists, designers, artists and animators among vacancies listed

As we start 2016, MCV looks back at the last twelve months to see just how the UK games market performed. In our first issue of the year, with the help of GfK Entertainment figures, we round up how much money the sector generated across hardware, software and accessories. We …

PS4 and Xbox One UK game sales shot up by over 50 per cent in 2015. GfK’s latest stats reveal significant growth for the new consoles. However, the overall UK physical games market is down by eight per cent, dropping from 2.294bn in 2014 to 2.1bn last year. That number …

PS4 owners who had pre-ordered the digital version of Square Enix’s Hitman have had their orders cancelled. Videogamer reports that Sony has told those affected that the publisher has notified us that the configuration of the product… has changed significantly”, that it is cancelling all pre-orders and that a revised …

Clay Bavor previously led apps division and Google Cardboard