MCV takes a look at the best accessories heading to UK retail. This week, it’s a mouse and keyboard combo with Cougar’s 300M and Turtle Beach’s Impact 700 Cougar 300M Gaming Mouse PC peripherals specialist Cougar has bolstered its M series of gaming mice with a brand new product. The …

According to research outlet McCormick AMS, Irish gamers spent €206m (149.1m) on boxed video games in 2014. However, when compared to figures published by the firm for 2012, this represents a decline in games retail of around 17 per cent, with spending in 2012 totalling €248m (178.8m). Meanwhile, market tracker …

The price of Xbox One at UK retail is 299.99, Microsoft has announced. The deal is led by retail, the platform holder tells MCV, and this price is for the UK only. The last retail-led Xbox One price cut was in September, when the price fell to 330. Despite being …

Rockstar has said that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V was part of the plan from the beginning and that development of the SKU began early in the process. We were always going to bring GTA 5 to PC,” a group of Rockstar North developers told PC Gamer. …

The operators of a website that sells four and five star reviews for Amazon products is being taken to court by the online retail giant. GeekWire reports that Amazon has accused Jay Gentile of selling fake ‘verified reviews’ to suppliers and even supplying advice on how they can trick Amazon …

Nick Gibson analyses the marketing strategies of the casual games giant behind Candy Crush Saga

Rovio Stockholm’s general manager has revealed that 2013’s Angry Birds Go has been acquired by more consumers than every Mario kart game combined. In a contentious tweet, Oskar Burman said that total sales of every Mario Kart title since the 1992 original Super Mario kart have totalled 106m. Angry Birds …

PC stalwart Paradox Interactive kicked 2015 off in style by launching Cities: Skylines to great aplomb. The title outsold Grand Theft Auto, FIFA and Dying Light in its first week, and went on to become the publisher’s fastest-selling game to date. Hot on the heels of that game’s success, COO …

The success of city-building hit Cities: Skylines has once again highlighted the power of player-created content on PC. Speaking to MCV in an exclusive interview, COO of publisher Paradox Interactive Susana Meza Graham said: The modding community has just completely embraced the game. I think we had 5,000 mods within …

“Postal was rejected due to gratuitous violence, yet they sell the entire GTA series”