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The biggest night in the UK video games industry calendar took place earlier this month, and you can now relive some of the best bits of the MCV Industry Excellence Awards 2011 in the video at the bottom of this story. Over 600 guests jammed into The Brewery, Chiswell Street …

Leading execs from Electronic Arts, Activision, Sega, Ubisoft, Future Publishing and more starred in a special sizzle video shown at the MCV Industry Excellence Awards last week. The curtain-raiser music video – this year using Bee Gee’s You Should Be Dancing – played to a crowd of over 620 attendees …

Over 4,000 was comfortably raised during last week’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Money was raised on the evening itself but MCV Online readers could also donate here before and after. The online fund raising will close this week, but so far 4,232 has been raised. If you would like a …

The biggest names in the UK games trade descended upon the Brewery for the MCV Industry Excellence Awards last night. The event began with the Sega-sponsored pre-drinks at Parker McMillan, with eager industry execs making the most of the free drinks. Leading nominees including Nintendo then made their way up …

A slice of action from Battlefield 3 was debuted to the MCV Awards crowd last night – and you can relive the clip below. Due out on November 2nd, the game is headed for PS3, 360 and PC. It’s a direct sequel to Battlefield 2 and the twelfth game in …

MCV Awards is UK trade's biggest night of the year - here's the winners in full

So where was the MCV Award for Activision? After the success of Black Ops, the team from Stockley Park were bound to go home with something shiny, right? Nope. These days, even publishing the biggest selling game doesn’t guarantee anything. And that just about sums up where the games business …

Microsoft emerged as the champion of the PR & Marketing category at tonight’s MCV Awards. The Xbox 360 platform holder claimed three prizes – Best Trade Marketing Team, Best New Games Brand for Kinect title Dance Central and Best Use of Social Media for iOS app Fable III: Kingmaker. It …

Amazon defeated the supermarkets to be crowned best general retail at the MCV Awards last night. The firm was the only online company in this new category. The specialist retail prize was scooped by GAME, having missed out on winning any awards last year. Meanwhile, star store was awarded to …

Ubisoft won the ultimate prize at the MCV Awards: the Grand Prix. CEO Yves Guillemot himself was on hand to collect the prize, which honours both a strong 12 months in the trade, plus an overall history spanning 25 years. The Grand Prix is the only prize solely selected by …