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This year’s Games Media Awards on October 15th will see the games media vote on the night for their ‘Journalists’ Journalist’, from a shortlist of six industry standouts. Ahead of the big night, MCV talks to nominee Simon Parkin about what the award would mean and the difficulties faced by …

Ian Morris, editor of inclusive family-friendly games website Everybody Plays, explains the importance of knowing the age suitability of kids’ titles – and why next-gen isn’t for everyone yet What are you working on at the moment? At the moment, all hands are on deck building up our coverage for …

Chris Bond, senior staff writer and producer for Ginx TV, chats about the success of Videogame Nation and what’s next for the outlet Launched back in 2008, Ginx TV has managed to avoid the early death suffered by many of its video games TV channel rivals. In fact, the London-based …

Gareth Whelan, editor of DC Thomson’s kids gaming title 110% Gaming, outlines the publisher’s entry into the market One of the UK’s longest-standing publishing houses, DC Thomson has been behind some of the biggest kids magazines of the last century. Now the firm is breaking into games journalism for the …

Curse’s Nathan Lindberg discusses how the young firm rivals old veterans of the industry – and what it has set its targets on next Despite being less than a decade old, Curse has quickly established itself as a player to watch. The firm’s Union for Gamers network on YouTube, a …

Ubisoft has announced that The Crew has been delayed, and will be released worldwide on December 2nd. The open-world racer was originally set for launch on November 11th, alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection and two days before Ubisoft’s pair of Assassin’s Creed games, Unity and Rogue, PES 2015 and …

Daniel Dawkins, group editor-in-chief for games, tells MCV about Future Publishing’s major transition and the challenge of good journalism What are your main campaigns at the moment? We’re busy with the Golden Joysticks Awards, which move to a fantastic new venue this year, Indigo at 02. We’ve already broken a …

Lord of the Rings spin-off Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor debuted in second in the UK software chart last week, failing to knock FIFA 15 from number one. According to the latest Ukie games charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track,EA’s football juggernaut saw its second consecutive weekly top spot, holding off competition …

IGN continues to be one of the biggest media outlets in the world.Dan Kilby, commercial projects and marketing manager, explains how it plans to expand further For nearly two decades IGN has remained one of the most recognisable names in games. This is partly thanks to the site’s ability to …

MCV chats with Ben Stevenson-Hall, assistant manager of the Cambridge branch of Forbidden Planet, about which video game properties have proved most successful for the merchandise specialist What video game merchandise do you stock, and what brands are most successful? The first thing that comes to mind is Minecraft. Minecraft …