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As the speedy hedgehog reaches quarter of a century old, UK games retailers, publishers, media and developers reminisce about their favourite Sonic games and moments. Simon Bennett, Roll7:My earliest memory was one of my most favourite gaming memories, sat on my mate Stu’s sofa, on the Game Gear, playing one-life-one-pass …
Read More »MCV’s games of E3 2016
We played the games, we watched the trailers and we spoke to the UK games industry to come up with our top titles from E3 2016. INDIE GAME OF E3 We Happy Few From: Compulsion Games Platforms: Xbox One, PC, PS4 Out: July 26th (Early Access) This creepy survival game …
Read More »International Factfile 2016: South Korea
The South Korean market is mainly driven by digital sales and online PC titles, the two being obviously closely linked. Data firm Euromonitor reports that, in 2014, online PC games accounted for 65 per cent of the overall $2.2bn (1.5bn) digital sales. Revenues generated by PC games increased by 16.9 …
Read More »Opinion: Emotional labour in the games media (and beyond)
IHS games analyst Steve Bailey asks if we need to be concerned about the sheer extent of hostility that can sometimes face people who work in the games media. Iwas a freelance games journalist up until 2008, writing almost exclusively for print. Then, gaming forums featured some hostility toward the …
Read More »Opinion: The changing landscape of games industry conferences
SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen discusses the rapid rise and sheer number of video game events designed to educate the industry on the next big thing. For this year’s E3 conference, I’d like to not talk about E3 for a change. Over the course of my tenure as an industry analyst, …
Read More »Opinion: When video games date the movies
Former Sony London Studios VR developer Dave Ranyard discusses how virtual reality could see the worlds of film and video games unite. For years now we have seen games and movies do a merry dance together but never really meet up. Sure there have been games made of movies and …
Read More »The MCV & Develop Podcast: E3 Preview available now
Our fourth episode of The MCV & Develop Podcast casts a critical eye on the upcoming industry showcase that is E3 2016. MCV’s editor Chris Dringjoins Develop editor James Batchelorand MCV’s associate editor Ben Parfitt to debate the relevance of E3 itself, the possible strategies for all three platform holders, …
Read More »The Hitchhiker’s Guide to E3
The biggest games event in the galaxy is under way shortly. We have scoured the infiniteblackness of space in search of the finest bits of advice andvital information in order to get the most out of this year’s E3. Travelling around Los Angeles Los Angeles is big. You just won’t …
Read More »Opinion: A PR’s guide to E3
Caroline Miller, the boss of MCV Award winning PR agency Indigo Pearl, shares her advice on how developers and publishers can get the most out of E3 I’m one of those people who really enjoys E3. The thought of a week in sunny LA: seeing the latest games, meeting clients …
Read More »Read our 88-page MCV E3 special for free
It’s the annual E3 MCV spectacular, and it’s crammed with 88 pages of features to prepare yourself for the world’s biggest games expo. That includes our ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To E3′, an amusing and genuinely useful guide to surviving and getting the most out of the event. But of course, there’s …
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