Media & PR

A PS Vita edition of XCOM: Enemy Unknown is in the works, according to a new ESRB rating. The rating indicates the Vita release will be dubbed XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus, though its unclear what the addition in the title means in terms of differences from Enemy Unknown’s PC, console …

A series of tweets by Minecraft creator Markus Persson has highlighted the developer’s struggles in trying to adjust to his newfound wealth. Microsoft last year acquired Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5bn, with Notch himself netting somewhere in the region of $1.5bn. He used some of the money to buy a …

The UK trade body’s community and engagement assistant Jenny Brammall has been promoted. Brammall will now be serving as UKIE’s commercial services coordinator, I’m thrilled to continue to work with UKIE’s lovely community, especially the Video Games Ambassadors scheme and student membership who I have grown very close to,” she …

Future has promoted GamesMaster games editor Matt Gilman to editor. Gilman joined GamesMaster in 2012 as a staff writer, before being promoted to games editor in 2013. Prior to his role at the multi-format title, Gilman did freelance work for PocketGamer and Pocket Picks. His promotion to editor follows the …

Dear UK Games Industry, We have been lying to you, and we have had enough. Last week, the No.1 game in the UK charts was not the most popular game. The Chinese Room should have been celebrating its first No.1 with Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture. Just as this week, …

Next week, we will not be running a charts section within MCV Magazine. The two pages we devote to charts aren’t good enough. The Steam charts are global, and Valve hasn’t responded to our requests for a UK-focused Top Ten. Microsoft kindly supply us with an Xbox Live chart, but …

Insomniac, Ubisoft and Astronauts devs offer advice via viral hashtag

Mind Candy says it has already changed Moshi Monsters after breaching the Advertising Code. The Advertising Standards Agency issued a ruling against Moshi Monsters, and rival kids online game Bin Weevils, that it was directly exhorting children to make in-game purchases. It followed a complaint made about the game to …

Romania is a small but mighty market for games, playing host to big players in the global industry. The country continues to have just one big distributor for games, Best Distribution, which handles the importing of games for the country’s similarly small pool of High Street and online retailers. Despite …

Funktronic Labs started life in 2013. It was founded by Eddie Lee and Kalin, veterans of Japanese studio Q-Games, who had worked on Q’s PixelJunk series for PlayStation platforms and PC. Initially based in Japan, Funktronic soon moved to LA. Now the duo are preparing to release their first title, …