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Free-to-play Counter-Strike spinoff Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies is out now in open beta. The game – set to officially launch in October – is the western version of Korea’s Counter-Strike Online 2. As always, player feedback means a great deal to us, and is reflected in our games,” Nexon Europe’s Product …

Prominent YouTubers are proving to be the most popular faces as Steam’s new Curator system rolls out today. As reported earlier, the new Curator system allows users to list their favourite titles on the service. Following others allows Steam to construct a recommended games list according to which games feature …

Valve’s PC sales portal Steam has reached another significant milestone. The company says that the service now has 100m active accounts, up from the 75m figure it boasted in January. Furthermore, there are now over 3,700 games available on Steam, with over 1,300 being added in the last nine months …

All video games magazines currently running out of Future’s London office are to be moved to Bath. The move was first proposed as a possibility back in May but has now been confirmed, Future has told MCV. In addition, Daniel Dawkins has been appointed group editor-in-chief for games with James …

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Earlier this week MCV held its first ever Games Retail 2020 conference at BAFTA – a day-long event looking at the future of selling video games. Here are the 12 things we discovered… 1.Boxed games really are not going anywhere In a talk filled with data, Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch …

Calling any area of the games industry ‘dead’ is something that invariably comes back to haunt the person that said it. Nintendo in the early 2000s? Dead. PC gaming? Dead. Console gaming? Dying. All statements that were proven unequivocally wrong in the fullness of time. And yet when presented with …

A special event hosted by MCV sister site Mobile Entertainment showcases top UK mobile content and technology firms Mobile Entertainment’s Top 50 Mobile Innovators project is now in its fourth year, continuing the mission to discover the best of British talent from the business of mobile apps and games. The …

The price for an Xbox One in the UK is now 100 less than it was when it launched back in November 2013. Although Microsoft has not officially announced this new price drop, Eurogamer spotted the new 329.99 price on the UK Microsoft store. The senior producer at Microsoft Studios …

Ubisoft has announced a surprise addition for those who fork out for Assassin Creed: Unity’s season pass. Included will be a side-scrolling 2D games called Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China which will take the series to Asia for the first time ever. It’s developed by Climax Studios and has visuals inspired …