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Lobbying for the Games Media Awards has now opened, and we’ve already been inundated with emails. But in case you’re confused about how the process works, here’s step-by-step guide to winning one of the coveted GMAs… The lobbying period is open now and until July 20th. Anyone can lobby for …
Read More »Games Media Awards 2012: Will you be a winner?
You have just one week to lobby for the Games Media Awards 2012, so get in touch now to let us know why you deserve a prize this year. You can nominate yourself, a colleague, your own personal favourite media or, if you’re feeling generous, even a competitor. But you …
Read More »UK CHARTS: The Dark Knight remains risen
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes has claimed the UK No.1 for the fourth week in succession. It does so despite a 19 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. There’s no change in second or third, either, with Sega’s London 2012: The Official Video Game and Activision’s The Amazing Spider-Man …
Read More »D3 reveals Earth Defense Force 4 for Japan
Earth Defense Force 4 has been revealed by publisher D3. It’s the fourth instalment in the cult ‘B-movie’ alien shooting romp. Sadly, however, a European release has not yet been confirmed. "Unfortunately I have no additional information that I can share about EDF4,” a D3 statement released to Eurogamer read. …
Read More »International jury announced for Gamescom Award 2012
The international jury has been announced for this year’s Gamescom Awards. MCV and Develop editor-in-chief Michael French, amongst editors Guy Cocker from GameSpot, Tony Mott from EDGE, Christian Nutt from Gamasutra and more will make up some of the 20 editor-in-chiefs and personalities within the games industry who will sit …
Read More »Anarchy Reigns stumbles as Vita sales half
Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns managed only eighth place in its first week in the Japanese software charts. It sold 21,199 units on PS3 and an additional 4,170 on Xbox 360, Andriasang reports. Interestingly, Western-made debutant Ghost Recon: Future Soldier faired better, claiming seventh place with sales of 23,021 units. Pokemon …
Read More »Gamescom 2012 sees expanded Gamecity:Hamburg presence
Germany’s largest games industry network, Gamecity:Hamburg, welcomes its biggest ever gathering at gamescom 2012. Gamecity: Hamburg will bring 11 Hamburg-based companies to its booth at the industry event in Cologne. Exhibitors under the Gamecity umbrella include Atlas Interactive Deutschland, Fishlabs Entertainment, InnoGames, Playa Games, and Taylor Wessing Deutschland. It is …
Read More »Kickstarter to include UK projects from this autumn
UK creative types will from this autumn have the option of Kickstarting their ideas. That’s because one of the biggest success stories of 2012, crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, is to launch in the UK this autumn. As reported last month, Kickstarter has to date led to the successful bankrolling of over …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Famitsu reflects on H1 2012 in Japan
EXCLUSIVE: During the first half of 2012, Japan’s overall video game market was valued at 193.40 billion, up 0.7 percent over the same period last year, based on a 9.4 percent rise in software sales, to 122.67 billion, but with a 11.4 percent decline in hardware sales, to 70.73 billion. …
Read More »Rambo invades Cologne next month
Reef Entertainment’s Rambo: The Video Game will be playable for the first time at Gamescom. The action game was announced last year and will be available to consumers at Reef’s stand. "We showed the game behind closed doors at E3 to a favourable response," Reef’s general manager Will Curley told …
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