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The recent video game cover of free mag Shortlist has broken records for AR firm Blippar. The campaign was blipped almost 230,000 times at an average of 4.5 blipps per user, with an average usage time of 6.24 minutes, and the data claims that the result has made ShortList the …
Read More »IN PICTURES: GAME staff show store pride
Whatever happens to GAME, you can’t say its 6,000 UK employees didn’t put up a fight. Hundreds of store staff lobbied MCV this week with defaced and ‘updated’ versions of our contentious March 16th cover, where we stated that the GAME that we once knew was gone. Despite the uncertainty …
Read More »GONE: The GAME we once knew is up [ANALYSIS]
Some will say that the image with this OpEd – which also adorns our cover this week – is too much, too soon. But even after a dramatic Wednesday that saw a buyer officially enter the frame and rumours mount that another US firm is sniffing around… I think we …
Read More »Capcom makes a typo… on Resident Evil 3DS cover
At MCV we’re not above a good typo now and then. Hell, we even spotted one on the BBC earlier in the week. But a spelling mistake on the spine of a game cover? That’s a new one on us. But that’s exactly what has happened in the US. Pictures …
Read More »UK Catherine release gets reversible cover
Publisher Deep Silver has announced that the European version of bizarre erotic puzzle game Catherine will include a reversible cover. One side will showcase Katherine, the loving and devoted partner of protagonist Vincent, while the other will display the sexy Catherine. The game has already achieved cult status overseas, thanks …
Read More »Messi defects from PES to FIFA
Barcelona and Argentina football star Lionel Messi has been signed by EA as its new global face of the EA Sports FIFA franchise”. The move is all the more significant as superstar Messi has in recent years been the face of rival Konami’s PES series. Messi’s first FIFA appearance will …
Read More »Tiger Woods retains EA cover role
Publisher EA has confirmed that it will once again use the likeness of Tiger Woods in the next instalment of its PGA Tour Golf series. The former world No.1 has been a troubled figure since his much publicised media blowout in late 2009. Back then he was ranked as No.1 …
Read More »Ronaldo’s PES 2012 cover revealed
It is fronted by none other than Portuguese forward and former Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo. I am flattered that Konami has chosen me to be the face of PES 2012, and by their reasoning behind the cover image,” Ronaldo stated. PES 2012 to me is the perfect recreation of …
Read More »Catherine cover toned down for US
Publisher Atlus has confirmed that it is to produce two versions of both the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions of obscure sexy puzzle title Catherine. Siliconera reports that one will carry the original Japanese cover art, complete with provocative undies (on PS3) and partially exposed rear (on Xbox 360). The …
Read More »iPad 2 pricing announced
Apple has finally confirmed its UK prices for the iPad 2 ahead of the device’s official UK launch this Friday (March 25th). As was exclusively revealed by MCV’s sister site PCR this morning, the launch has been pushed back until 5pm on Friday thanks to a national shipping error. Prices …
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