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Midway has set its sights on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe becoming the biggest fighting game yet on next-gen systems after the game enjoyed a rapturous reception at E3. The game pits the Mortal Kombat characters against heroes from the world of DC Comics, including Superman and Batman. The E3 …

President Capps says studioâ??s future â??must be a mix of our start-up past and blockbuster presentâ?

Revenues for Vivendi’s games division have dipped 11 per cent year on year – with the publisher blaming the drop on the lack of World Of Warcraft release this year. The firm made €444 million in the period (US 698m), down from the €500 million (US $786 million) it posted …

Nintendo has for the first time admitted that the limited 512mb internal memory stored inside the Nintendo Wii is beginning to pose a problem, and has stated that it is looking to address it. NoE’s MD of marketing Laurent Fischer famously said last month that geeks and otaku are the …

In a blog post on its website discussing the upcoming PAX games expo, Halo developer Bungie has confirmed that it is currently working on three new projects – but added that it won’t be making any big announcement at the Penny Arcade event. The news comes after the developer confirmed …

North Carolina-based Wake Tech's students to get their hands on Vicious Cycle's engine

You only have to look at the headlines streaming through MCV in recent months to know why this is being described as the games industry’s age of consolidation. If it’s not 92 per cent of Activision’s shareholders voting for a merger with Vivendi, it’s the gripping – and titillating – …

Rumour has it that Nintendo approached Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on, tentatively titled the SNES-CD. However, on closer inspection former Nintendo Chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi decided the contract was unacceptable and secretly cancelled all plans. Sony decided to use what they had developed so far and make a standalone console …

On April 1, 2003, one of the two biggest video game publishers in Japan, Enix, legally absorbed the other, Square. The latter’s stockholders received 0.85 shares of stock in the new company compared to Enix stockholders receiving a one-to-one trade. Despite this, many top officials within Square assumed leadership roles …

The 74 million acquisition of the second biggest specialist retailer in the UK by the biggest was a mighty shock for the entire British industry – not least the MCV team, who had to deal with the breaking news on our magazine’s deadline day. The total investment included 300,000 set …