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It is when Yves Guillemot lists the companies that Ubisoft first worked with that you realise just what an achievement it has been to simply survive for 25 years, let alone prosper. He recalls deals with Domark, Elite, US Gold, Telecomsoft and Ocean – all now either defunct, absorbed by …

Ubisoft’s founder and CEO Yves Guillemot has told MCV that his company can overtake the industry’s two behemoths, Activision and EA, to become the global games market leader. Commenting on the eve of the firm’s MCV Award Grand Prix win, he said that EA selling its stake in Ubisoft last year …

Top job filled at California-based social games company

Attendees of this year’s Gadget Show Live will be able to play LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and parts of Gears of War 3 for the first time. The upcoming titles will be showcased at the GAME stand in the Gadget Show Live’s Game Zone. The event runs from Wednesday, …

Not winning perhaps reveals the difficulty it had last year with some other titles, or the over-achievement of Red Dead. Microsoft winning three and EA winning publisher of the year nods towards these two being considered two of the strongest performers of the last 12 months. Nintendo, meanwhile, has worked …

Two Way Media produces The Deal for media giantâ??s worldwide TV arm

Final day to secure your place on stage at the European outing for the Game Developer conference

So where was the MCV Award for Activision? After the success of Black Ops, the team from Stockley Park were bound to go home with something shiny, right? Nope. These days, even publishing the biggest selling game doesn’t guarantee anything. And that just about sums up where the games business …

It’s time to stand up and face up to that elephant in the corner of the room. Retailer GameStop has officially launched a digital games store on Facebook. It claims to be "he first multichannel gaming company to launch a storefront on Facebook and provide true social commerce to more …

MCV understands that current Nintendo UK comms boss is to join iPhone platform holder; Is another key PR exec to follow? Nintendo UK’s head of PR, Robert Saunders, will shortly re-emerge in a newly created role at Apple. There is no confirmation from Apple or Saunders himself as yet, but …