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A new Birmingham Expo will help fire MCM Group to record levels in 2012. Last year, the company’s six shows drew in an all-time high of 170,000 attendees.In addition to the usual London and Midlands MCM Expos, the Group will launch the MCM Expo Birmingham Comic Con in March. As …

Headset specialist Turtle Beach became the UK’s top-selling peripherals firm of 2011 in terms of value. It was beaten only by format holders Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, making it the leading third-party. Turtle Beach, which manufactures popular headsets under the same name, was also ranked No.1 for headset sales in …

Denki MD Colin Anderson explains the torture in getting an original game signed

We’re used to publishers broadening their reach and distancing themselves from the core, but a new strategic shift from THQ is seeing it do the opposite. The firm has confirmed its intention to exit its relationships” with licensed kids entertainment IP holders. THQ’s back-catalogue of recent years features some of …

Here at MCVuk.com we spend all day reading the internet. Hundreds of sites. Millions of words. But if we were to recommend, say, five stories to read, what would they be? Funny you should ask that, because they would be these: Interview: GAME and the state of retail (Spong) Much …

Nintendo has confirmed that it will bundle a 3DS stand with Kid Icarus: Uprising when it hits the UK on March 23rd. The official explanation is that the game simply works better with a secure unit. The unofficial reason, however, is that it’s mightily painful on the hands when playing …

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Develop examines the inner workings of Ubisoft's most creatively daring studio in Montpellier

Games studios called on to supply educational content for micro computer

Reports from the East suggest that SNK Playmore is to have another crack at the handheld market with the release of a new Neo Geo portable. Andriasang reports that the device has a 4.3 inch screen and 2GB of internal storage, as well as an SD card slot. It has …