New 'Social Club' provides online-stat tracking for all future Rockstar games including GTAIV, firm secures Amazon tie-up, too

A handful of the UK’s finest video games companies have pledged to make this year’s MCV Excellence Awards the best ever by sponsoring vital elements of the evening. Nintendo returns as the MCV Awards’ Exclusive Retail Partner, sponsoring the entire retail category of awards – which takes in Independent Retailer, …

The changes s uggested by Dr. Tanya Byron in her Review of digital entertainment today – and backed by leading Ministers – won’t actually have any practical effect until 2010. That’s according to the report itself, which sets out a timetable for when Byron’s recommendations will be implemented. It reads: …

An aggressive price promotion from the UK’s leading retailer Tesco has seen Microsoft’s Xbox 360 drop below the 150 barrier for the first time. The supermarket chain if offering an Xbox 360 Arcade machine, which includes a wireless joypad, 256MB memory card, component cable and five Xbox Live Arcade titles, …

Result of UK Government study requests 'more dialogue between games developers, educational resource developers and educators'

Dr. Tanya Byron’s long-awaited Review into children’s access to unsuitable digital entertainment has finally been published – and spells some serious changes for the UK industry. Here, we condense the main points from the Review, entitled Safer Children In a Digital World. Byron recommends: * ‘A hybrid classification system in …

Dr. Tanya Bryon’s Review into young people’s access to inappropriate digital entertainment has recommended ‘movie-style’ ratings for video games, according to early newspaper reports – as first predicted by MCV earlier this year. The national media has thus far spun the findings as a ‘crackdown’ on the sale of violent …

Ubisoft has revealed to MCV the release date for PS3 exclusive Haze, the latest game from Timesplitters creators Free Radical Design. The game was delayed from last Christmas, where it was billed as a major release for PlayStation 3. It will now hit retail on May 22nd, with rumours circulating …

In the second of a new series of articles profiling, celebrating and analysing some of the best and biggest British-made IPs, we examine RollerCoaster Tycoon and chart its history from a one-man development team to big business - and back againâ?¦

With just a few days to go until Tanya Byron unveils her in-depth report on violence in the modern media, we want our readers in the trade to outline what you think the potentially explosive Department for Children, Schools and Families review should recommend. Should we ditch PEGI and use …