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Industry charity GamesAid has called on games professionals to sign-up and vote on the charities it will donate money too. GamesAid’s nominations open from August 4th to August 18th and any member of the charity can put an organisation forward. You can join GamesAid here, and nominate for charities by …
Read More »Games retail fights back
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. …
Read More »GAME giving away free downloadable Charizard for Pokemon X and Y
The Pokemon Company has teamed up with GAME once again to give gamers a free downloadable character. Charizard, complete with Mega Stone (or Charizardite for those fans out there), can either be downloaded via Nintendo Zone, or gamers can ask for the character at the till. Fans will need to …
Read More »Sony didn’t believe PlayStation ‘would ever be a major part’ of its business
PlayStation was viewed extremely negative from large parts of Sony before it launched, Andrew House revealed at Develop Conference today. In a piece that looked back on the history of the PlayStation business, House and Cerny took a trip down memory lane to discuss the origins and growth of the …
Read More »FROM THE ARCHIVE: The House that PlayStation Built
Back in 2011, days before Andrew House moved to Japan to become CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, MCV sat down with him to conduct his final interview as Sony Europe President. The piece looked at the career history of the man who would go on the become the most powerful …
Read More »GameStop plots UK loyalty programme
Global retail giant GameStop told MCV this week that its UK website has seen ‘triple digit’ growth over the last few years. And now the firm wants to launch a loyalty scheme in Britain, but still has no plans to open any High Street stores. The firm’s international boss Mike …
Read More »Are we really giving up on Xbox 360 and PS3?
E3 2014 was rammed with games for PS4 and Xbox One. It was an exciting show for those millions of gamers that have invested in Microsoft’s and Sony’s latest hardware. Yet for that even larger audience yet to upgrade, and are still happily playing with their 360 or PS3, it …
Read More »Hearthstone expansion due next month
Blizzard’s hit card game is getting a single-player mode next month. Curse of Naxxrama was announced back in April, but fans won’t have to wait long to get hold of it, with Blizzard’s community manager (named Arati) confirming the game is due in July. Pricing for the expansion will be …
Read More »Sony confirms The Last of Us PS4 bundle
A new PS4 bundle featuring The Last of Us Remastered is coming to Europe. The bundle costs $430 (or 375) and comes with a PS4, a DualShock 4 controller and the game. It is out August 1st alongside the new title. For those that didn’t play last year’s post-apocalyptic horror …
Read More »Hospital Club 100 seeking games nominees
The Hospital Club’s 100 – the annual search for the most innovative people working in the creative industries – is seeking nominees for its games category. The sixth-annual event will be hosted at the Hospital Club Studio on October 8th, but nominations – which are open to the public – …
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