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MCV is pleased to announce its sponsors for the MCV Awards 2017. DingIt.TV will be the Headline Sponsor for this year’s awards, while Aardvark Swift, Gamescom, OPM Recruitment and Playwire Media will be backing the event as Event Sponsors. Twitch has been named as the exclusive Livestream Partner for the …
Read More »South Park: The Fractured But Whole delayed, but record 2016 digital sales keep Ubisoft afloat
South Park: The Fractured But Whole has slipped into the next financial year, Ubisoft’s Q3 financial report has revealed, and the company has revised its fiscal 2016-2017 sales figures as a result. Whereas Ubisoft was previously targeting around €1,610m fiscal sales, the company has now revised this down to €1,455m. …
Read More »Xbox’s Mike Ybarra and Kareem Choudhry promoted to CVP
Xbox’s Mike Ybarra and Kareem Choudhry have been promoted, a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed to MCV. News of their promotions first surfaced yesterday after Windows Centralwrote a post based on information from "sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans" but MCV can now confirm this is indeed the case. Ybarra will now …
Read More »The Walking Dead: A New Frontier coming to retail on March 3rd
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier will be arriving at European retailers on March 3rd, Telltale announced today. The game will come on a special season pass disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles (not Switch, sadly, despite being released on the same day as …
Read More »Oculus and Best Buy close 200 demo units
200 of the 500 demo units to close
Read More »Steam reveals Discovery 2.0 has resulted in 46% more games shown to customers
Alden Kroll, a Valve UI designer, writes about the Discovery 2.0 update.
Read More »Heard About: Robinson The Journey
John Broomhall talks with Simon Pressey about developing sound, dialogue and music for the flagship VR title from Crytek
Read More »Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue and Immortals all sign Vainglory teams
Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue and Immortals have all signed Vainglory teams and will debut in the new spring season. To celebrate the arrival of these new professional organizations, Super Evil Megacorp will be hosting all five teams at the company’s Super Evil Lair in San Mateo for a Run …
Read More »TT Games acquires mobile developers Playdemic
Playdemic will be working on mobile editions of the Lego franchise
Read More »Nutaku launches crowdfunding site for X-rated games, Kimochi Red Light
100 per cent of the money raised from crowdfunding will go to the campaigning developers
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