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Media giant IGN has signed up as gold sponsor for the London Games Conference. The November 10th event brings together 300 games industry execs to hear from innovative businesses and opinion formers in the digital games space.Keynotes this year come from GameStop and Valve, with Eidos life president Ian Livingstone, …
Read More »UK Software Sales Monitor: Market jumps to £17.6m
The weekly games software market value hit 17.6m this week – up 28 per cent over the 13.7m generated last week. Game unit sales leapt 11 per cent to 687,610. It’s the best performance for the boxed games industry in the past month, with Dead Island and Warhammer 40,000: Space …
Read More »Deep Silver Dead pleased with first No.1
Koch Media’s publishing label Deep Silver scored its first ever No.1 this week with Dead Island. Its victory marks the end of an aggressive campaign by Koch, which started with a cinematic teaser in February. We’ve handled titles that hit No.1 in the UK, but never where we acted as …
Read More »Moshi Monsters to release chart single
A new single ‘The Moshi Dance’ is to be released on iTunes on 18th September following the success of online hit Moshi Monsters. The music video for the single on YouTube, starring ‘Lady Goo Goo’ has had over three million hits since it was uploaded in June. If successful, the …
Read More »505 shines in bleak August for UK retail
Retail will hope the worst is behind it as August game sales plunged to new lows. The boxed games market did enjoy a late sales spike with Deus Ex, which reached No.2 in the Chart-Track monthly charts despite just two days on sale. But this only highlights what a weak …
Read More »Release date for Football Manager 2012
Developer Sports Interactive has announced an official release date for Football Manager 2012 in the UK. The game will arrive on both PC and Mac on October 21st. Over 800 new features are promised in this latest instalment of the series. Heavy revisions have been made to the transfer market …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Dead Island is the new No.1
Despite a number of challenges in its first week on the market, Deep Silver’s Dead Island has capitalised on the hype it created earlier this year to claim the No.1 in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It triumphed despite the presence of four new entries in the …
Read More »Golden Joysticks 2011 shortlist revealed
Future has announced the shortlist for this year’s GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards 2011 presented by Alienware. Voting is open now and will remain so until October 14th. There are 14 categories to vote on in total. 20 games are in contention for the big prize, the Ultimate Game of the …
Read More »‘Stop the price war’
The UK games market must stop slashing prices, or its worth will be eclipsed by other European territories, Konami has warned. The publisher’s Euro chief Kunio Neo told MCV that the UK market is suffering, while other territories like Germany are thriving. His words come as a fresh price war …
Read More »F1 2011 ad gets Champions League debut
Codemasters is to use ITV’s Champions League coverage to propel its upcoming console and PC title F1 2011 into the public limelight. The game’s debut 30” TV ad will be aired on the evening of Wednesday September 14th during ITV’s Champions League match. EA recently used the heavyweight Premier League …
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