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Last Thursday, MCV celebrated its fifteenth annual Awards, with 24 accolades recognising the very best in the industry. You can now read all the reactions from the winners and see pictures from the night in this week’s issue. Elsewhere, we partnered with UK trade body Ukie to bring the definitive …

What one hand giveth the other taketh away. Sega has revealed at the SXSW event that upcoming 2D platformer Sonic Mania has been delayed from the spring until the summer. Fans of the series may also be pleased to know that the return of Flying Battery Zone, of Sonic 3 …

The co-founder and chief executive of Telltale games has left the company. Kotaku got hold of an internal memo sent around the developer confirming the news. Today I am writing to let you know that I’ll be stepping away from my position as CEO of Telltale,” Kevin Bruner said. We’ve …

Over half the UK population was aware of the Nintendo Switch prior to its launch on March 3rd, but only just under a third of that figure are actually interested in buying the console in the next three months, a new report from Harris Interactive has found. Unsurprisingly, awareness of …

Consumer spending in games has increased 72 per cent between 2007 and 2016, but physical spending has fallen by 54.9 per cent during the same period, according to a new report from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Boxed games are now worth less than half their value in 2007, totalling …

Sony is on the verge of halting PS3 production in Japan. Gematsu reports that the Japanese product page for the 500GB charcoal black PS3 reveals that manufacturing of the device will come to an end soon”. As the only PS3 currently in production for the region, that ultimately means the …

Production targets for the Switch have reportedly been doubled thanks to strong demand for the machine. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nintendo has doubled the number of Switch consoles it intends to manufacture in 2017 from 8m to 16m. This is due to higher than expected demand. Nintendo now …

The team behind PlayStation Access, PlayStation UK’s award-winning YouTube channel, is to leave its current home at The Yogscast to form a new video-focused creative agency called We Are Reach, MCV can reveal. PlayStation Access will continue to be the team’s main focus at We Are Reach, but the move …

Sony has confirmed that its PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn has already surpassed 2.6m sales worldwide after just two weeks on shop shelves. This makes it the best-selling new first party IP launch on the PS4 to date and developer Guerrilla Games’ biggest ever debut. "We knew Horizon Zero Dawn …

The UK games industry may be worth a record-breaking 4.33bn according to Ukie’s annual industry valuation this morning, but a new report from IHS Markit paints a slightly gloomier picture for the worldwide console market. The worldwide console market shrunk by 2.5 per cent in 2016, contracting to a consumer …