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Not just a terrible tune from the ‘80s – it really is the final countdown to nominations closing for the 2016 MCV Awards. If you don’t contact us in the next two days, you’ll be on The Road To Nowhere… The MCV Awards 2016 will take place on Thursday March …

One week remains until the UK’s Christmas No.1 is decided and Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III is once again the top dog in the UK All Formats chart. The shooter rose despite a 37 per cent decline in sales this week. Star Wars Battlefront climbs to one place …

Virtual reality firm nDreams has secured a 2m investment round and has invested in senior hires. The company has received 2m from tech-centric investment outlet, Mercia Technologies. These funds are to be put to further expansion. This follows the company receiving 1.75 at the start of 2015. nDreams has also …

Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony all saw record revenue for their current-gen console hardware last month, NPD has reported. Hardware sales for November 2015 reached $1.12bn. That’s up 11 per cent compared to the same period last year, driven by a 14 per cent increase in console hardware revenue – which …

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 …

Gearbox Software has opened a new studio in Quebec, Canada. Ina post on its website, the studio announced Gearbox Studio Quebec is already developing its first title, aiming to grow it into full triple-A production capability through 2016.” The location is Gearbox’s first outside of Texas. We have already successfully …

New branch headed up by former Activision art director

The boss of Nintendo America has said warned that gamers shouldn’t be expecting traditional experiences from the company’s firs smartphone titles. Unfortunately there’s a simplistic mentality out there, that ‘Make a Mario game for smart devices’ is a recipe for printing money,” Reggie Fils-Aim told TIME. And it’s not. It …

PC-focused website PCGamesN has made a number of additions to its editorial team. Phil Iwaniuk (pictured, right) comes on board as deputy editor having freelanced for PCGamesN since September. Before that he worked at Future’s Official PlayStation Magazine. Iwaniuk starts straight away. Meanwhile, Ben Barrett (pictured, far right) has been …

Christmas presents sorted? Tree up? Ocado food delivery booked? MCV Awards nominations submitted…? If you’ve not contacted us yet to tell us why you, your team or your company should be in the running for an MCV Award, you need to act fast. And when we say fast, we mean …