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Last week, MCV submitted an official complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over the Government’s latest Change4Life print ad . We have added further submissions as more evidence has come to light about what MCV believes to be an unfair and unwarranted attack on the UK video games industry. If …

You can now read this week’s issue of MCV magazine online – simply point your browser here and turn the pages . The launch of a digital edition means MCV can now be read by more people than ever before, increasing both its editorial influence and advertiser value. You can …

EA Montreal has announced it is currently developing Army Of Two: The 40th Day. The game is a direct sequel to the 2008 original, once again focusing on co-operative shooting action. It is due for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP this winter. The 40th Day will be set …

Partners with Japanese middleware firm CRi for Scaleform Video

A CV posted by an animator at UK and Warner owned games developer Traveller’s Tales has confirmed that the studio is currently working on the long-rumoured LEGO Harry Potter game. It was also revealed that a second LEGO Indiana Jones outing tied to recent movie release The Kingdom of the …

Yet the Change4Life campaign’s deliberate fingering of video games – even using hackneyed gaming clichs like ‘Game Over’ – as a contribution to child obesity has sought to ignore and undermine all that, and proves there are still people out there that just don’t get it. The debate has rumbled …

Details of venue, date and potential winners confirmed

Sony Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ eagerly anticipated Spider-man 4 has been dated for May 6th 2011, with Marvel confirming a number of films that will see three year’s worth of summer blockbusters. Alongside the web-crawler, also on the way is Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), The First Avenger: Captain …

Emerging games publisher Warner has seen its gaming line-up receive a sizable boost in the arm with the expiration of EA’s licensing deal for the Lord of the Ring s franchise – with the rights now back with Warner-owned New Line Cinema. Variety reports that EA’s deal with New Line …

Creative Assembly is set to follow-up t he success of Empire: Total War, with futuristic console RTS, Stormrise. 2009 has already been a big year for the RTS genre, with Dawn of War II, Halo Wars and Empire: Total War performing well in the All Formats Top Ten. And Creative …