MCV Awards: The Finalists Revelaed

The finalists for the MCV awards have been revealed and our lovely lot are one of them! Woohoo!

We at Go2Games were very excited to learn that we’re up for the ‘Best Indie Retailer’ MCV Award!! How awesome is that?! The ceremony will be held on Thursday 16th April 2015, so we’ll keep all our lovely visitors informed on how we get on. Fingers crossed!

We have been previously nominated, and been a finalist too, at last year’s MCV Awards of 2014. Alas, being a finalist is as far as we went… But this year we’re all revved up and ready to go, especially with our lovely blog on the rise and having great feedback from all of you! For that, we thank you kindly!

As you know, we’re also touring MCM Comic Con 2015 in Britain this year *silent rave* and our first one in the Midlands on 14th February went very well indeed! So if you’re coming along to any of them, or thinking of doing so, then come and say hello to the G2G crew and our totally excellent inflatable tent!

Anyway, back to the awards! You can check out all of the other finalists too of the MCV Awards 2015 HERE, on their official page. Keep your fingers crossed for us guys! 

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REPORT

More than half of the UK games industry work longer than the national average.

It has now been reported that all those in the gaming industry are full on workaholics! The majority of British games professionals work over 41 hours a week, according to a recent survey by MCV. That is above the national average of 39.2 hours a week – a figure that is already one of the highest in Europe.

On average, UK games industry workers earned £29,000 during 2014. That’s a decline of £1,500 on last year’s results, but still higher than the national UK average of £27,200. So it seems that all the hard work is paying off, and so it should be!

MCV conducted the Salary Survey alongside their sister title Develop, and spoke to over 850 industry execs to gather these results. What they gathered was that men earned £30,000 a year on average, while female pay was £24,250. This was mainly due to the fact that there were more men being in higher paid roles, but also shows the lack of diversity at boardroom and senior level.

That aside, we have to hand it to them. All their work has given us gamers infinite hours of gaming pleasure and introduced us to many a virtual wonder.

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