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Always keen to teeter on the brink of risqu, retailer Gamestation has unleashed the latest element of its Christmas marketing drive – the 21st century gaming nativity”. Following a poll of 30,000 customers, Gamestation has swapped out the classic characters of the nativity and replaced them with a handful of …
Read More »PC download store delay for Amazon?
Amazon has postponed the launch of its PC download platform to 2012. MCV believes the service, live in the US since early 2009, was up-and-running in October.But publishing sources say it will now go live in the UK early next year and miss the originally planned autumn roll-out. US sister …
Read More »Download charts ‘worth the wait’
The UK digital sales charts have been a long time coming, but Sega’s John Clark is confident the industry will be satisfied. The managing director for Sega’s UK arm also heads up the publisher’s digital projects, and has been involved with the creation of the digital charts from the beginning.While …
Read More »REVIEW: London Games Conference 2011
The market is in a curious, contradictory state.Going by Chart-Track numbers, the UK boxed market has just had its highest-grossing weekend ever, but not by selling the most games. More games were sold in the comparable 2010 week than the last. So what’s going on? Games are doing better than …
Read More »1 in 5 Brits regret iPhone purchase
Is the Apple halo slipping? Although the firm sold4m unitsof the iPhone 4S in its opening weekend, there is evidence of some disenchantment with its devices. Mobile phone comparison site www.GoodMobilePhones.co.uk claims 22 per cent of UK iPhone users wish they had chosen a different device. Almost half of iPhone …
Read More »Asda debuts £40 Blu-ray player
Supermarket chain Asda is kicking off its drive to win the Christmas market with a discount Blu-ray player offer. The retailer is selling the ONN DS-BD52 Blu-ray and DVD player for just 40. The unit includes HDMI, composite and digital coaxial audio ports. It is available both in-store and online, …
Read More »Half of UK mobiles dropped down the bog
Nearly half of us in the UK have dropped our mobile phone down the toilet, it is claimed. 31 per cent of handset damage is liquid-based, and men appear to be the most clumsy users. Of the water damage victims 73 per cent were male while 27 per cent were …
Read More »Zelda: Skyward Sword – review roundup
Ahead of its release on November 18th, the review embargo on Nintendo’s Wii title The Legends of Zelda: Skyward Sword has lifted. And as has become customary in recent weeks, yes, it looks like we have another absolute belter on our hands. If you own a Wii, do we even …
Read More »OnLive challenges studios to ‘blow our minds’
OnLive wants developers to ‘blow their minds’ and create content built specifically for cloud gaming. At London Games Conference today, OnLive CTO Tom Paquin used his experience at Netscape as an example. He said Netscape asked consumers what they wanted and that they all asked for news, sport and weather. …
Read More »PopCap reveals how to fail at mobile gaming
At London Games Conference today, PopCap senior designer David Bishop listed ten ways to fail at mobile gaming. 1: Blank Android. "Don’t publish on Android. It is a complete waste of time," he said. "And absolutely don’t bother with Kindle Fire. Nobody will buy it." 2: Ignore Facebook.Nobody does anything …
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