Games from Italian publisher Black Bean will be released in the UK via up-and-coming firm Tradewest, MCV can reveal. The new publisher label, founded by Martin Spiess following the collapse of Midway’s European operation, has been chosen to distribute Black Bean’s games in the UK and France. All of the …

New awards include Peripherals & Accessories Brand and Game Creative – for a single ad execution across any media, such as TV, radio, outdoor, cinema, print etc. Today on the site we detail all categories and criteria. MCV runs a transparent system, where we choose the Finalists and the industry …

The MCV Industry Excellence Awards return on Thursday April 22nd, and this year the categories have been tweaked slightly. Lobbying has now opened and you have less than a month to try for a position on the shortlist. CLICK HERE to see the complete list of categories and full details …

Win or lose, at least guests at this year’s MCV Awards will be able to shake their booty into the small hours thanks to current chart-topper Just Dance. The Wii game from Ubisoft has provided the biggest surprise of 2010 so far by out-selling everything during mid-January, remaining at number …

Rockstar has announced that the previously Xbox-exclusive Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City will be released on PlayStation 3 and PC. The game features two adventures set in the GTA IV world – The Lost and Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony. Both adventures will be available to download …

New statistics from the CBI’s Distributive Trades Survey show that sales on the High Street in early January declined eight per cent year-on-year, ending hopes that retailers were on track to enjoy three straight monthly increases. The vicious cold snap in the early part of the month was mainly to …

Europe’s biggest game industry event has formed an official partnership with pivotal trade publications MCV and Develop. Gamescom will now have both powerful industry publications as its media partners, bolstering the event’s international ambitions. "This agreement with MCV and Develop underlines the wide appeal of Gamescom to the international business …

Key European event partners with leading trade titles as early registration kicks off

Now the long wait is at last over, the tech industry has been keen to share their impressions of Apple’s smartphone-netbook stopgap, the iPad – and the reactions paint a very mixed picture. Some foresee big things for iPad, with the extra screen space and five-point mutli-touch opening up a …

Russian publisher 1C made $1m in revenue from digital sales over Christmas, the firm has told MCV. The revenue was generated through December and the New Year. 1C’s key titles also proved to be big sellers digitally even when shops were closed – 14,000 copies of Kings Bounty: Armored Princess …