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Sony may be celebrating Blu-Ray’s victory in the next-gen DVD format war with HD-DVD – but Microsoft has told MCV that it believes the future of movie playback is digital. And VP of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Europe Chris Lewis has gone one step further – ruling out any move for …

Man who discovered Lara Croft says D&D inventor "was one of the most influential people in gaming"

Would you like to see more synergy between music, video and games? How is this achievable? We don’t think of it as synergy, we just think of our audience, what they want to do and how we deliver it to them. We deliver both music and games to them. We …

And to celebrate, the publisher plans to celebrate with a high profile consumer event. Alongside a renewed marketing push that will include online promotions with The Sun, SkySports, FHM, Kerrang and the MSN network, Activision will be inviting gamers to a special Boot Camp event where they can play for …

Entertainment media behemoth MTV is keeping a close eye on the current culture of consolidation at the top level in games – and refused to rule out a move to swoop for a publisher. In an exclusive interview with MCV, conglomerate MTV Newtorks also discusses the ‘definite possibility’ of a …

Over 300 dealers, distributors and suppliers celebrated the first ever trade awards dedicated to the computer retail channel last night, as part of MCV sister magazine PC Retail’s Awards ceremony. Gem was the star of the show, picking up the prestigious Grand Prix prize in recognition of the distributor’s outstanding …

Mainly because it is 20 years’ time now, and we’re still no nearer to popping pills for dinner or living absurdly decedant lives. Unless you’re Kate Moss, I suppose. And it is particularly difficult to decipher what will happen to the games industry once the entertainment giants have moved in. …

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Havok's Jeff Yates says you can breathe life into interactive game characters with the company's new Behaviour tool...

Following NPD’s games industry report for North America in February , Nintendo and Sony have responded in bullish fashion and spoken positively about the year ahead. Nintendo, whose DS and Wii were the clear hardware leaders for the month selling over a million between them, said in a statement: Our …