The high-flyers on our MCV Brit List: Women in Games Top 100 are now revealed. 100 women working in the UK games industry from almost 100 different studios, divisions or companies have made it to the list – chosen by a judging panel of over 50 UK games industry executives. …

Forget Mario moving to smartphones – smartphone hit Puzzle & Dragons is making the move to 3DS. Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros Edition, which can be seen in the video below, mixes the game’s established gameplay with a Mario-themed makeover, with the gems carrying recognisable icons and the villains …

There’s no arguing that Heston Blumenthal’s snail porridge is anything other than a technical masterpiece, but would you choose that over a doner with chilli sauce at 11pm on a Friday night? The point of this seemingly conspicuous aside? Asking what the best game of 2014 was is very different …

James Brown, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, examines the rising importance of consoles as media hubs and casts an eye toward the role they may one day play in the entertainment sector… When the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, admitted just ahead of this year’s E3 that the company …

Gamers on the move can put their valuable consoles and peripherals at risk, but a suitable carry case or cover can avoid the danger. MCV gets carried away Cases are the ideal thing to accompany brand new shiny consoles – nobody wants their expensive new hardware and peripherals to pick …

Back in 2007 – at the start of the last console generation – there were over 1,000 video game specialists on the High Street. 1,070 to be precise. Today, there are 605. It’s even worse if you look at the number of music and movie specialists that sold video games. …

Self-explanatory UGC title due on Wii U in 2015

Alex Ward imagines a stellar E3 conference that could revitalise Microsoft’s new-gen console

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata won’t be attending next week’s E3 2014 event in Los Angeles on the advice of his doctor. A Nintendo representative told Polygon that Iwata has been advised not to travel overseas in the immediate future, so he’ll remain in Japan during the show. "He’s been instructed …

Owners of both Wii and DS will no longer be able to play their titles online from today. That’s because, as warned back in February, today’s the day when the off switch will be flicked on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service, bringing an end to a host of features once …