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The tenth anniversary MCV Awards were dominated by mass-market brands and digital pioneers. There were no prizes for the format holders. Instead, the top three publishers all claimed multiple prizes while ambitious smaller firms grabbed many others. Activision took home four awards: two for the best-selling Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (Digital …
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MCV AWARDS 2012: Official liveblog
The MCV Awards 2012 is taking place this evening, with the usual mix of fun, networking, drinks and celebration of games industry achievements over the last 12 months. And if you can’t be there in person, don’t worry as we’re liveblogging the whole thing, in glorious realtime as the event …
Read More »Medal of Honor full trailer airing at MCV Awards
EA will air the latest trailer for upcoming shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter at tonight’s MCV Awards. The new Medal of Honor is due out on October 23rd and will continue the success laid down by the 2010 title of the same name. Having made a name for itself with …
Read More »MCV Awards 2012 – tonight’s the night!
The MCV Industry Excellence Awards will kick off in just a few hours at its new venue: the Lancaster London Hotel. Inbetweeners star Greg Davies will host the 10th Anniversary ceremony, which will celebrate the last decade of games industry achievements. Don’t forget to bring a tenner – GamesAid is …
Read More »Games boss Martin Baxter leaves HMV
HMV’s games category manager Martin Baxter is to leave the retailer, MCV can reveal. He departs to pursue new opportunities outside of the business” with his last day being on April 20th. He joined the company in 2008. HMV is in the process of recruiting a replacement. "I’m going to …
Read More »God of War: Ascension leaked, heading to PS3
Sony hasn’t officially announced the latest in the God of War series, but it’s pretty clear they’re about to. A teaser trailer and box art mockup for God of War: Ascension has leaked out; supposedly less than a day ahead of Sony’s planned reveal date of April 19th. The title …
Read More »Binary Domain PC next week
Sega has announced a release date for the digital PC version of sci-fi squad shooter Binary Domain. The version, developed by Devil’s Details as opposed to the console developer Team CS1, will launch on Friday, April 27th for $39.99 the Sega Blog confirms. It uses Steamworks as DRM software, so …
Read More »Microsoft reports UK growth for Xbox Live
Paid-for Xbox Live games and content are enjoying good growth” in the UK year-on-year, says Microsoft. In an interview with MCV, Xbox Live’s UK product manager Pav Bhardwaj said this includes Arcade releases, Games on Demand titles and extra add-on content. We don’t have any particular numbers as such, but …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Pav Bhardwaj, Xbox Live UK
Microsoft’s Xbox Live UK product manager talks Minecraft, Arcade Next and the future of the Xbox 360 online platform. Tell us about the Arcade Next promotion – why group a bunch of new games under that tagline? How effective have past promotions been? Yeah I think we’ve been quite fortunate. …
Read More »Tesco posts first UK profit decline for 20 years
It may be the biggest and most important retailer in the UK, but supermarket giant Tesco has posted its first fall in UK profits for 20 years. Profits at its UK arm fell one per cent to 2.5bn for the year ending February 25th. UK sales fell 1.2 per cent …
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