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It’s a new year and a new opportunity for your team to shine. And it starts this week as we announce the finalists of the MCV Awards 2016. We’ve had hundreds of nominations since lobbying opened late last year and tomorrow morning we’ll announce which companies and teams have been …

Win a ticket to major mobile conference, takes place January 18th to 19th

Things continue to look exceptionally bleak for the Japanese console games market, according to data from Famitsu. In 2015 the sector’s games market generated 321bn, a 13 per cent decline year-on-year. Meanwhile, software sales dropped 16 per cent to 191bn, and console sales dipped to 130bn – a 8.5 per …

New SuperData report suggests smartphones will lead this year’s virtual reality push

Lumo Labs 'preyed on consumers' fears about age-related cognitive decline', according to FTC

Unsurprising, Adele’s 25 album was the UK’s biggest entertainment product of 2015 with 2.6m sales, according to retail trade body ERA. But it was very close between the smash hit album and the video game FIFA 16. FIFA 16 sold over 2.5m units, and was on sale for a much …

Forget yesterday’s GfK Chart-Track figures, UK game revenue actually grew by 10 per cent last year. Sales of physical disc-based games dropped 2.2 per cent in revenue year-on-year to 927.6m. But according to IHS estimates, digital game revenue was up 17.1 per cent last year, rising from 1.622bn to 1.899bn …

The prospect of cloud gaming has been dealt another blow. Square Enix opened its cloud-focused division Shinra Technologies – named after the eponymous company in Final Fantasy VII – back in September 2014, with former Square president Yoichi Wada taking the reins. Among the firm’s aims was the creation of …

Metal Gear Solid creator to be handed award by former Silent Hills collaborator Guillermo del Toro

Just shy of 7,000 people to receive free headset