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There was a time – just a few years ago – when the big movie studios were a legitimate threat to the likes of Ubisoft, EA and Activision. Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Fox and Marvel, with their decades of entertainment expertise and treasure trove of million dollar franchises, were preparing …
Read More »Paul Tonkinson, Ellie Gibson, Jarred Christmas and Holly Walsh join GamesAid comedy night line-up
Industry charity GamesAid has named the acts that will be performing at the upcoming Stand Up for GamesAid comedy event. Paul Tonkinson, Ellie Gibson (yes, as in Eurogamer’s Ellie), Jarred Christmas, Holly Walsh, Paul Thorne, Ola, Kev Orkian and Susan Calman will all be performing at the special event. This …
Read More »Loading Bar loses London home
The popular gaming bar Loading has called time on its Soho location. The firm’s makeshift home on Rupert Street has been a fashionable hang out place for gamers, developers and industry types, and has held a number of events for the likes of 2K, Creative Assembly, Ubisoft, Team 17 and …
Read More »Kotaku invades UK
Kotaku UK will be launched by Future in a matter of weeks. The popular and controversial US website already attracts 1.1m UK users every month. Future says that adding the site to its portfolio automatically makes it the second biggest online games media firm in the UK with 3.3m monthly …
Read More »Print can win over ‘YouTube generation’
Print magazines can still attract the millions currently getting their gaming news from YouTube. That’s according to the team behind One Gamer Interactive, who hope to attract a digital-savvy audience with this new iPad publication. It’s no big secret that print magazines don’t have the strong mainstream presence that they …
Read More »PlayStation game sales rose in 2013, but Xbox was still king
PlayStation was the only console brand to increase its video games sales last year. According to ERA based on GfK Chart-Track data, the number of PS4, PS3, PS2, Vita, PSP games sold last year was 11.4m, an increase of 1.8 per cent over 2012. These games combined generated 372m, a …
Read More »Number of High Street games stores drops, but still beats online and supermarkets
Online stores and supermarkets failed to capitalize on mass store closures in the UK last year, as High Street stores emerged as the biggest sellers of physical video games. The latest figures – released by ERA based on Chart-Track figures – show that the likes of GAME, Argos and HMV …
Read More »What now for PlayStation Vita?
PlayStation UK MD Fergal Gara tells MCV why the platform holder will never give up on its portable console, and where it goes next… Many of the exciting games announced for Vita are indie projects. Do you think the console is lacking a big triple-A product this year? Well, there …
Read More »OnLive: The world is now ready for cloud gaming
OnLive says its new business model will finally convince gamers that cloud gaming can work. But analysts remain sceptical that fans will want to spend money on the new-look service. OnLive says its original business model, where games could buy a virtual version of their title and have it streamed …
Read More »When Twitch Played Pokémon – MCV speaks to its creator
Last month an online game launched which took the gaming world by storm. Over 16 days, the title was played by over 1.16m gamers and watched by almost 10m people. At its peak, 121,000 people were watching it simultaneously. The game? It was the 1996 Game Boy classic, Pokmon Red. …
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