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The chart success fort Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs is not over yet. Having had to make way for NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 in last week’s listings, Sleeping Dogs is back at No.1 in the latest charts, although it did this despite a 42 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. Guild …
Read More »Total number of US gamers drops in 2012
The total number of US gamers has seen a significant reduction in 2012, according to an NPD report. USA Today reports the group’s Gamer Segmentation 2012: The New Faces of Gamers report estimates there are currently 211.5m gamers in America, a five per cent decline from 2011. The report specifies …
Read More »Farewell, Nintendo Gamer – final issue in pictures
Even if you’ve bought it before, it’s essential that you pick up the final edition of Nintendo Gamer. Future Publishing’s independent Nintendo-focused magazine was closed last week, though the Nintendo Gamer website will continue to run. The magazine’s editor Nick Ellis wrote a farewell note in the final issue stating …
Read More »The Guardian partners with London Games Festival
The Guardian has joined forces with London Games Festival to run its own series of events. The broadsheet will host a session on changes in reader tastes and games journalism, advice for aspiring games writers and tips on how to code the Raspberry Pi. The Guardian’s award-winning games team will …
Read More »Team NSD wins Asia E-sports Cup India
Baroda-based Team NSD destroyed all opposition on its way to winning the finals of the Asia E-Sports Cup 2012 India finals for Counter-Strike 1.6. AEC 2012 saw 167 Clans from 13 cities participating in the qualifiers, and the finals were held recently in Navi Mumbai. Team NSD beat off competition …
Read More »GMA Hall of Fame: Jonathan Pile
As we head towards this year’s Games Media Awards on Thursday October 18th, we look back at previous winners to find out what winning meant to them, what advice they’d give to rookie games journalist, their favourite writers and more. This week, we speak to Jonathan Pile, news editor of …
Read More »Gamescom guide lists Half-Life 3 for show reveal
The internet has erupted this afternoon after an eager journalist spotted a listing for Valve’s hugely anticipated Half-Life 3 in the official Gamescom show guide. T3 reports that the game is included in Gamecom’s PDF guide. It’s safe to say that Half-Life 3 is amongst the most anticipated releases in …
Read More »Are you ready for Gamescom?
There are just a few days to go before the world’s biggest games show. Gamescom veterans tell us how they are preparing Andy Robinson, Editor, CVGBefore the show, map out your appointments and figure out exactly where they are. The convention center in Cologne is a big old place if …
Read More »GMA 2012: The finalists in full
After weeks of intense lobbying, MCV can reveal the finalists of this year’s Games Media Awards – over 30 writers, plus more than 50 online and print publications, are in the running. The winners will be voted for by a 200-strong judging panel, comprising members of the media and industry …
Read More »US digital sales up year over year during second quarter
Encouraging news coming out of the NPD today, as the group revealed digital sales for Q2 2012 were up year over year by 17 per cent. The amount spent in the US on video game content in all forms from April to June totaled $2.88bn. That figure divides into $1bn …
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