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“Sixty tonnes becoming six hundred tonnes, that’s the dream"
Read More »Gaming peripheral companies A4T and ABP to save 60 tonnes of single-use plastic from landfill in 2019
Peripheral company Mad Catz teams up with VIP UK for UK distribution
"I couldn’t be more excited to add Mad Catz to our gaming portfolio"
Read More »Razer finally confirm Hong Kong IPO to raise $550 million
The company first filed in July to go public and has now confirmed it will offer 1 billion shares
Read More »Logitech acquires rival Astro Gaming
Accessories giant Logitech has taken a huge stride into the console market with the acquisition of Astro Gaming. The $85m deal sees Astro become part of the Logitech G division, which until now has been primarily focused on the PC gaming sector. Astro’s expertise in the area of console accessories …
Read More »Hori’s odd Splatoon 2 headset to include squid adaptor to bypass Switch’s phone-based voice chat
Many eyebrows were raised when Nintendo announced that Switch owners would have to use their smartphones for voice chat when playing games online as part of its paid subscription service (which has now been delayed until early 2018, Nintendo announced this morning), but peripherals manufacturer Hori is likely to raise …
Read More »Opinion: Alex Verrey says for peripherals quality is king
Little Big PR’s CEO Alex Verrey discusses why the peripheral industry should "embrace quality". The gaming industry has been good to me. In fact, it’s all I’ve known. I left school to present a series of video game shows and somehow segued into gaming PR. I’m still here now and …
Read More »Turtle Beach: ‘Audio will become an even bigger part of the gaming experience’
Turtle Beach received its first MCV Award for best peripherals and accessories in 2012 and went on to win every year from 2014. During our annual retail survey last December, Turtle Beach was also named the No.1 peripherals manufacturer by retailers – for the third consecutive year. We catch up …
Read More »MCV’s guide to the top peripherals firms and products
As retailers are constantly on the hunt for new products to diversify their offering, we round up the top peripherals firms in the industry. Hori Lime Distribution LucidSound Orb PDP Prif Razer Snakebyte Turtle Beach Venom HORI Location: London, UK Key contact (pictured below): UK accounts manager Alex Sturgess, 020 3735 8125 …
Read More »SD cards will soon come with an app performance rating
Buyers of SD cards will soon be able to more accurately assess whether their purchase will be able to run applications as smoothly as if they were installed on integrated memory. With many portable devices designed to have their storage bolstered by external cards, it’s easy to forget that the …
Read More »Microsoft: We will be patient with HoloLens to avoid ‘unpleasant’ Kinect situation
'When I feel the world is ready, then we will allow normal people to buy it,' says creator Alex Kipman
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