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He who knows the truth, The Miller Report’s Simon Miller, will be the host of this year’s Games Media Awards. In his own words, "Simon ‘The Miller Report’ Miller is the greatest man to ever walk this planet. "Known by many names – Truth Reporter, Real Man, The Walking Warrior …
Read More »Blizzard, Valve and Capcom lead dev finalists for eSports Industry Awards 2016
Ceremony of burgeoning pro-gaming sector takes place on November 21st at The Brewery, London
Read More »The UK games industry responds to Brexit in this week’s MCV
After the UK has voted to leave the EU, we have spoken to members of the UK games industry to see what happens next. After two weeks of uncertainty, leading venture capitalists insist that Brexit will be ‘totally irrelevant’ when it comes to UK games investment. UKIE boss Dr Jo …
Read More »Games Media Awards returns this October
The Games Media Awards are back for their tenth outing this year, with the event championing the best in writers, presenters and brands in the UK games business. The GMAs 2016 will take place on Tuesday, October 11th at Sway Bar, London, and nominations for the 10 categories will be …
Read More »PlayStation and Xbox speak out about their E3 announcements in this week’s MCV
E3 2016 is notreallyover yet. In this week’s MCV, PlayStation’s Jim Ryan and Xbox’s Dave McCarthy discuss what they showed at this year’s E3. We also picked out our favourite games from this year’s show. We also talk to DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson about why the First World War …
Read More »Check out our E3 roundup in this week’s MCV
What a week! MCV is this week looking back at what has been one of the noisiest and more eventful E3’s in history. We also discuss the Brexit and how it could affect the UK games industry, with help from UKIE. Elsewhere, we speak to EA’s senior producer Nick Channon …
Read More »The MCV & Develop Podcast: E3 Preview available now
Download our latest episode as we discuss the relevance of the major gaming summit, and the future of the platform holders
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 …
Read More »Read about Ready at Dawn’s Deformers in this week’s MCV
This week, we talked to Ready at Dawn’s president Ru Weerasuriya about new title Deformers and the studio’s partnership with GameStop’s publishing arm. We also had a chat with Debbie Betswick, Jenny Richard-Stewart, Jo Twist and Pauline Jacquey about how the games industry can help improve its diversity problem. Elsewhere, …
Read More »Read about PS4 growth, Overwatch and Women in Games Awards in this week’s free MCV
In today’s free edition of MCV, we reveal the state of the hardware market in the UK so far this year. We also talk to Blizzard’s Michael Chu about Overwatch and how the shooter is going to stand out from the fierce competition in this sector. Meanwhile, Sumo Digital’s Carl …
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