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Multiplay is growing its Insomnia events by almost ten times their current size. The eSports festival – which currently takes place three times a year – is moving from Coventry’s Ricoh Arena to Birmingham’s NEC starting from this December. The GAME-owned Multiplay has signed a three-year deal with the NEC …

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French to help promote London as a development hub and grow the city's games business

YouTube’s new Gaming portal is a genuine threat to Twitch, warn prominent video journalists. Although YouTube comfortably leads the market with video-on-demand content, Twitch has become the platform of choice for live-streaming. Something YouTube hopes to change. YouTube is late to the party, but I’d never discount it as it …

MCV’s 30 Under 30 returns next month. We are calling upon the UK games industry to nominate those you feel deserve a place in MCV’s list, which recognises the 30 most-ambitious and worthy young men and women in the UK games industry. MCV’s 30 Under 30 is open to all …

Sales of UK games plunged to their lowest point in 19 years for the week ending August 22nd. According to GfK Chart-Track, just 4.46m was generated by boxed software revenue for that period, the lowest amount since the data firm’s inception in 1996. This figure only factors in boxed sales, …

The biggest names in the games media have joined MCV’s call for digital data to be included in the games charts. The Digital Counts campaign launched last week with an open letter to games publishers and platform holders, calling on them to share their data so that an accurate games …

YouTube has launched its new Gaming brand, but can it rival streaming market leader Twitch? We speak to the companies themselves, as well as video journalists from around the industry, about the video giant’s entry in the streaming sector. Our Digital Counts campaign also continues, with the games media joining …

The UK games industry can decide which charities will receive a record-breaking amount of money from GamesAid next week. From September 7th for one week, GamesAid members can vote from a list of charities that have already been put forward by the games industry. Due diligence to ensure the charities …

MCV publisher Michael French is to leave his post on September 18th for a new role with UKIE and Film London. He’ll lead a major new initiative, backed by the Mayor’s Office, designed to promote London as a world-leading games destination. French has worked at NewBay Media (formerly Intent Media) …