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Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall is the latest celeb to star in Nintendo’s TV ads. Cattrall – who played the promiscuous Samantha Jones in the long-running US sictom – appears in a fresh ad for Super Mario 3D Land, which arrived on retail shelves last November. The video’s …

Ubisoft’s new IP took the world by storm when it debuted in E3 – and it’s being made in Britain. Well, partly in Britain. Watch Dogs’ main developer Ubisoft Montreal is collaborating with Newcastle-based studio Ubisoft Reflections. Reflections’ most recent product was Driver: San Francisco, a game praised for both …

E3 has closed its doors, but don’t panic – everything you need to know about this year’s video games extravaganza is right here on MCVuk.com. Throughout the past week our teams at home and on the show floor in Los Angeles – not to mention our international crews at MCVpacific.com, …

There’s only one day left of E3, but fear not – the next big games show is only two months away. Gamescom will return to Cologne’s Koelnmesse on August 15th and runs until August 19th. And this time it will be even bigger – 140,000 square metres bigger to be …

The UK games industry may be visiting America for E3 this week, but some firms are establishing a more permanent foothold over the pond. UK accessories vendor Gioteck has taken further steps to conquer America with a new distribution partnership. The firm has teamed up with US company Solutions 2 …

Peripherals specialist Lygo is giving members of the games industry the chance to win Turtle Beach headsets during the upcoming Euro 2012 tournament. To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is sign up to Lygo’s trade-only ‘The Turtle Beach League’ on the official Euro …

Ubisoft’s survivial horror game ZombiU is a key launch game for Wii U, but the publisher isn’t ruling out the idea of bringing it to other platforms. Speaking to IGN, a Ubisoft exec said the game could potentially be ported to Mcirosoft’s new Xbox SmartGlass technology or the cross-play between …

Walt Disney Pictures has released the debut trailer for Wreck-It Ralph, a film that tells the tale of a frustrated video game villain. The clips shows the titular Ralph at a group therapy session with other gaming nasties, including Bowser, Dr Robotnik and Clyde, one of the Pac-Man Ghosts. He …

In the seventh of a series of features answering the biggest questions about the industry’s future, James Batchelor discusses the impact the free-to-play model has had on the traditional MMO Is the subscription MMO in trouble?YES At its peak in 2010, 12m people around the world were playing Blizzard’s World …

Nintendo has confirmed that Bayonetta developer Platinum Games is currently putting together a launch title for Wii U. Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, confirmed to GTTV that the platform holder will publish the new game, currently titled P-100. Little is known about the project as of yet, except …