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It was the most prosperous year in the history of gaming – but for much of UK retail, it proved to be a nightmare. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2008… Our 2008 Retrospective is live now in our features section.
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Moving through another year of our historical journey, Tim Ingham gives a nod to the 12 months that gave us PS3, Xbox Elite – and a whole lot of consolidation… Click here to see the full piece in our features section.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2006
Continuing our look through the history of games this decade, we glance back at the year Nintendo stole the show, with the arrival of its Wii and DS Lite… Click here to visit our features section for the whole thing.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2005
We reach 2005 in MCV’s look back at the past decade, which saw the arrival of the Xbox 360, PSP and DS. The full story is over in our features section.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2004
Continuing our look through the history of games this decade we look back to the Manhunt furore, arrival of the DS, and demise of UK games trade shows… The features section has the full thing.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2003
MCV’s look back at how the games industry fared during the last decade continues with a focus on what happened in 2003. Michael French flicks through the archives and reads about N-Gage, the strugglign GameCube and yet more audacious advertising… Check out the full story in our features section.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2002
Continuing our look at the formative games industry events of the decade, we look back to 2002, when the war between format-holders began to heat up… The features section has the full thing.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2001
Continuing our series of retrospective articles covering the ‘noughties’, Michael French looks back at the key industry happenings in 2001. And turn over for our look at what happened the following year, too… Click here to read the full thing.
Read More »Review of the Decade – 2000
In the first of a series of features looking back on the last ten years in the video games industry, Michael French raids the MCV archives to chronicle the arrival of the ‘Noughties’… Head over to the features section for more.
Read More »GMAs 2009: Blyth named best print writer
Jon Blyth was named the best specialist writer in print at last night’s Games Media Awards. The freelance writer is best known in games for work on PC Zone but has also written for OXM, OPM. Edge, Eurogamer, Vice and The Guardian. He beat out Tom Francis (PC Gamer), Matt …
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