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What a difference five years makes. When PCGamesN first launched in June 2012, traffic figures were “just dreadful,” creative director Tim Edwards (pictured right, with editorial director Joel Gregory) tells MCV.  “It was really hard, like, just, incredibly hard,” he says. “We had a pretty good E3, but then the …

Interview with Time magazine provides updated figure from the 900,000 in February

Announcement on twitter with the tag line 'For All The Players'

Rocket League is celebrating its second birthday in July. Don’t worry if you forget to get them anything, because the car-based sports-em-up has you covered, with it’s anniversary event bringing a host of new features. Firstly the event, launching on July 5, brings an end to Competitive Season 4 as …

Overwatch players are in a sombre mood after the game’s Anniversary patch seems to have worsened an issue with character Sombra’s translocator. Worse, while Blizzard know it’s happening, the company hasn’t yet worked out how it’s happening, or how to fix it. A post on the Battle.net forums by a …

Ninjas in Pyjamas has announced that they’re stepping away from Dota 2 for the second time, only a few months after acquiring what remained of Escape Gaming as their roster in January 2017. NiP’s team failed to make a big impact in Valve’s MOBA, failing to qualify for March’s Kiev …

Media Molecule HR Manager, Joanna Mabey discusses the recruitment needs of a small development team, triple-A development and what to do if you want to become a ‘Molecule’

We’ve been told for ages that magazines aren’t relevant anymore, that the internet is killing print. And yet, despite all the odds, games magazines are still here, fighting against the online invaders. Whether it’s Edge, Retro Gamer, GamesMaster, GamesTM, or even MCV, every one of them has been challenging the …

The UK arm of PlayStation has confirmed that it will sponsor London Pride 2017. The announcement was made using the hashtag #forALLthegamers. Been off the grid for a few days. Came back to incredible response to our #ForALLthePlayers news. And of course, the bigoted responses…” PlayStation UK social media manager …

In this month's print an digital editions, we have an exclusive interview with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and much more