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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 …

Ubisoft won the ultimate prize at the MCV Awards: the Grand Prix. CEO Yves Guillemot himself was on hand to collect the prize, which honours both a strong 12 months in the trade, plus an overall history spanning 25 years. The Grand Prix is the only prize solely selected by …

Darren Bowen, Ubisoft’s UK sales director, was honoured with our Retail Advisory Board’s Special Recognition prize at the MCV Awards last night. Bowen has served at Ubisoft for almost nine years and has previously held UK sales manager and trade sector manager roles at the publisher. Prior to joining Ubisoft …

Amazon defeated the supermarkets to be crowned best general retail at the MCV Awards last night. The firm was the only online company in this new category. The specialist retail prize was scooped by GAME, having missed out on winning any awards last year. Meanwhile, star store was awarded to …

Microsoft emerged as the champion of the PR & Marketing category at tonight’s MCV Awards. The Xbox 360 platform holder claimed three prizes – Best Trade Marketing Team, Best New Games Brand for Kinect title Dance Central and Best Use of Social Media for iOS app Fable III: Kingmaker. It …

EA walked away with the coveted Best Games Publisher title at tonight’s MCV Awards event in London. It marks an impressive double for the company which also claimed tonight’s PR Team award. EA enjoyed a strong 2010 with a host of chart-topping releases and has got off to a flyer …

An array of companies took home key accolades at last night’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. 14 different companies claimed the 19 prizes, but no company dominated the winners’ list, reflecting the UK trade’s diversity. 650 execs from retail, publishing, development, distribution, PR and marketing jammed into London’s The Brewery to …

The organisers of Gamescom have announced a number of key exhibitors that have already signed up for the increasingly prominent show’s 2011 iteration. EA, THQ, Konami, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are to have a presence at the event, which last year attracted over quarter of a million …