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There’s only a week left until the biggest night in the trade’s calendar. The MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be held next Thursday (April 19th) at its new venue: the Lancaster London Hotel. Inbetweeners star Greg Davies will host the 10th Anniversary ceremony, which will celebrate the last decade of …

Beleaguered technology empire will attempt to slash operating costs by 30%

BioWare has cleared up some of the confusion concerning what the upcoming Extended Cut DLC will and will not offer players of Mass Effect 3. The announcement of the DLC came in response to widespread criticism amongst parts of the gaming community regarding the game’s ending, which skips over the …

Media giant to release content on mobile and web; First title release in summer

Intent Media continues successful international expansion

Harebrained Schemes promises Linux support if it reaches $1million

The first daily news and community resource for trade and consumers across India will go live during the build-up to the world’s biggest games show this summer. MCV India will officially launch just ahead of E3 in Los Angeles and offer English language, locally-derived content. Mumbai-based Sameer Desai has been …

A new Wii game built specifically for UK families launches in summer. Nintendo’s Quiz Party is a trivia game packed with brain teasers and puzzles. It lets an unlimited number of players take part using just one Wii Remote. It’s even hosted by British TV quizmaster Roy Walker, of Catchphrase …

ShopTo has made a serious play into the streaming media space. The company has bought movie firm FetchTV out of administration, MCV can reveal. Fetch’s app is pre-installed on thousands of set top boxes and smart TVs. Increasingly-important ShopTo will allow users to stream movies on its website. But that’s …

The collapse of GAME took a heavy toll on the UK games retail market last month. 2.7m games were sold during March, a whopping 34 per cent drop on the 4.1m games sold during the same period in 2011. In total, retail generated 67.7m last month, a year-on-year drop of …