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Unite 12: Students, indies and triple-A studios recognised at engine outfit's annual prize ceremony

Ubisoft has announced that I Am Alive will be released on PC on September 13th. It will cost 11.99 and will available from Ubisoft’s Ubishop, Steam and other digital PC portals. I Am Alive was MCV’s very first Game of the Week earlier this month. The setting sees players struggling …

Cheshire-based Nomad Games to focus on touch-screen devices and digital distribution

Fifth entry in the storied adventure game series coming with the help of crowdfunding

If you’ve ever been to a game launch event in the UK the chances are that you’ve visited GAME’s Oxford Street store in London. Well, you’d better cherish that memory as the new-look Game Retail limited has confirmed that it won’t be renewing the lease on the property. It will …

Electronic Arts may be spearheading the digital revolution, but discs aren’t dead yet, says COO Peter Moore. In an interview with MCV at Gamescom, the influential figure in fact predicted that packaged goods will be reborn when the much-discussed new generation of consoles arrives, even if the digital tipping point …

The Broken Sword franchise is set to return – provided it wins sufficient support on Kickstarter. Original series creator Charles Cecil has taken to the crowd funding platform and hopes to emulate the success of Tim Schafer’s successfully funded new Double Fine project. Broken Sword: The Serpent’s Curse Adventure will, …

NASA’s Curiosity Rover may be 34.8m miles away from Earth, but that’s not stopping it causing a very terrestrial kerfuffle. Development favourite Peter Molyneux has revealed that a trademark issue with NASA means that he’s left looking for a new name for his debut iOS game, that until now has …

The latest edition of MCV isnow available digitally, and features our review of Gamescom 2012. This week’s issue contains words from EA COO Peter Moore, plus PlayStation Europe and UK discuss the relaunch of PlayStation Vita. And, of course, we bring you the latest charts data from Chart-Track, the PlayStation …

Studio's losing up to 50 per cent of revenues from marketing and share cut, claims Lasky