MCV

Series

Identifier: MAG-MCV

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes an assortment of issues of MCV and MCV/DEVELOP, dating back to May 1999. The majority of the collection is from before 2000 or after October 2019. Pre-2000 issues of MCU are from the US edition.

Dates

Publication: November 2009 –

Creator

Computec Media (Publisher, Organization)

Historical Note

MCV has been owned by a number of publishers over the years, most notably due to a rapid series in corporate buyouts and spinoffs during the 2010s.

Based on available information, the known previous owners of MCV include:

Computec Media (September 1998 – est. April 2002)
Intent Media (est. April 2002 – December 2012)
NewBay Media (December 2012 – April 2018)
Future plc (April 2018 – December 2018)
BizMedia (December 2018 – present)

Extent

26 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

MCV (originally The Market for Computer & Video Games) is a long-running game developer trade magazine, originally published weekly and first printed in September 1998. After the magazine was sold to Biz Media in 2019, it was renamed MCV/Develop, reviving the name of the defunct trade magazine Develop from the same publishers and moving from a weekly to monthly format.

MCV was originally published in both the United States and United Kingdom; the US edition was discontinued in 2000, while the UK edition remains in print.