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Creative marketing agency Substance Global has two new hires in its social media and project teams, as well as one promotion, the firm has announced. After six years at GameSpot, Sarah Lynch (pictured left) joins as project manager to support the team’s work on its entertainment clients, including Netflix, and …

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Marketing agency Think Jam has appointed 2K’s Chris White as publicity manager. White will mainly be working on Think Jam’s Warner Bros Games account, as well as select film clients, including the upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me, Steven Soderburgh’s new comedy Logan Lucky and Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player …

Originally set to launch this autumn, Nintendo’s online service for the Switch will now launch in early 2018, the platform holder announced today. Simply known as ‘Nintendo Switch Online Service’ at the moment, the paid service will let players participate in online multiplayer gaming and use their smartphone to chat …

MIDiA Research’s lead analyst for research on games and the mobile content economy Karol Severin shares his views on the Nintendo Switch, the platform holder’s potential difficulties in doubling supply and how making a hybrid console is changing the hardware landscape. He can be reached @karel_kayo Nintendo is attempting to nearly …

Warner Bros’ upcoming open-world action adventure game Middle-Earth: Shadow of War has been delayed until October, the publisher has announced. Originally set to launch on August 25th, the hotly anticipated follow-up to 2014’s critically-acclaimed Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor will now launch worldwide on PS4, Xbox One and PC (including Windows …

E3 2017 is on our doorstep, so this week’s issue of MCV is all about the biggest gaming event of the year. With this issue also being distributed at E3, we asked UK show veterans to share their show tips – most said they will avoid the Saddle Ranch but …

Valve has revealed the first details of this year’s Dota 2 Short Film Contest, which will give the winner $25,000. The annual competition has become a regular feature in the run up to The International. Fans are challenged to create a 90 second video based on Dota 2. This can …

Riot has suspended professional League of Legends player Tu “Ben4” Xin-cheng after he was found to be making racist remarks in public games. Ben4, who plays for Chinese team I May, will be suspended for one best of three match in the LPL. A statement on Chinese social network weibo …

Blizzard has released a new map for Overwatch known as Horizon Lunar Colony, which as you may have guessed, is set on the moon. The new map is currently available on the PTR and will be added to the main game in the coming days. It is the first map …