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Microsoft has provided a pretty robust set of answers today to questions about second hand games and online elements of Xbox One. But we’ve boiled them down further – you can find them below. You can read our original summary here. We’ve also summed up some unanswered questions here. GAME …
Read More »Xbox moves to calm fears over game ownership, always on, trade-ins and Kinect ‘snooping’
Xbox has tonight made a decisive move to calm the many questions asked about its new next-gen console Xbox One. Tonight, it has reiterated that Xbox One introduces new licensing mechanisms for games, and that this impacts how the second hand market works. But the firm says it IS NOT …
Read More »VIDEO: See the Sony and Microsoft E3 2013 trailers
There are just hours left – well, around 97.5 at the time of writing – until E3 2013 kicks off. Nintendo might be skipping its chance to take to the stage and Ouya might have based itself in an LA car park, but both Sony and Microsoft are preparing to …
Read More »MCV’s E3 Conference Schedule
E3 is back and MCV will be there to cover first hand every major announcement from LA. From June 11th to 13th, we’ll be nestling down in the office to give around the clock coverage of all the big-name press conferences and reveals. To be sure not to miss anything, …
Read More »E3: Watch Dogs is ready for LA expo
Violent shooter followed by violent shooter. A Wii U reveal that failed to hit the mark. No next generation consoles. E3 2012 will be remembered for many things, and not any of them good. Well, except one thing. The day before E3 opened its doors, Ubisoft held its usual pre-event …
Read More »Microsoft courting Sky to sell Xbox One as set-top-box?
UPDATE: Sky has responded to this story. Xbox is going to great lengths to win the next-gen games hardware battle, and a new deal with Sky could clinch it. Sources familiar with the situation tell us that Microsoft is in talks with the broadcaster to sell Xbox One with Sky …
Read More »Square Enix will reveal the ‘future of Final Fantasy’ next week
Square Enix had announced plans to discuss the future” of Final Fantasy at its pre-E3 event next Monday. The publisher will host a Q&A with senior vice president Sinji Hashimoto as part of the proceedings. The executive told Destructoid in February that the company was working on a next generation …
Read More »Trio of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag books on the way
The release of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will be accompanied by a tie-in novel, art book and strategy guide. A novel, aptly titled Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag will arrive a week after the game on November 7th. The book, published by Penguin Group, follows the same story as the …
Read More »E3: The games from this generation that you’ve already forgotten
The tidal wave of new games announcements that characterise every E3 is very exciting, isn’t it? Well damn you because it’s Monday and we don’t like Mondays so we’re buggered if we’re going to let you sit there and be all excited and happy while we stare into the dregs …
Read More »Welcome to E3 2013 on MCVuk.com
Can you hear that noise? That creaking? That’s the sound of games journalists’ E3 meeting schedules as they break to bursting point as we near the biggest week of the year for the games industry. E3 2013 kicks off on Monday June 10th and promises a host of big reveals …
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