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Four more games companies have backed this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Games. These include Sega, cloud gaming service OnLive, digital distributor Green Man Gaming and media company The Games Tribe. They join a range of sponsors for the Games Media Awards 2011 in association with Grainger …
Read More »UK software sales monitor: Market makes £11.2m
UK retail finally enjoyed a slight rise as it generated 11.2m from game sales this week. That is a five per cent increase compared to last week’s 10.7m. A total of 586,596 games were sold in UK retailers this week. Last week 563,110 were sold. Zumba Fitness continued to outsell …
Read More »Rising Star to publish Caves DoDonPachi in the UK
Daring indie publisher Rising Star Games has announced that it is to publish a second Cave shooter in Europe – DoDonPachi Resurrection. It follows on from the release of Deathsmiles on Xbox 360 last year. DoDonPachi Resurrection is already available in Europe on iPhone (as is Deathsmiles), but this is …
Read More »Star Wars themed Xbox 360 coming to Europe
IN PICTURES:If ever a console had guaranteed seller” written all over it, it’s this. Microsoft has lifted the lid on a quite spectacular Star Wars themed Xbox 360 console that will be launched alongside the much-hyped Star Was Kinect game later this year. The console itself is styled on charismatic …
Read More »AVCon to have record year this weekend
The Anime and Videogames Convention (AVCon) is set to have its biggest year yet this weekend at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This year is AVCon’s retro-themed 10th year, and it’s hoping to pull 10’000 people through its doors, growing from 8’000 in 2010. Running over Saturday and Sunday, attendees can …
Read More »L.A. Noire debuts at No.1 in Japan
Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire has taken the top spot in the Japanese charts after its first week on sales, leading a wave of Western-developed successes in the region. The Team Bondi-developed detective thriller shifted more than 70,000 copies in Japan, with the PS3 copy taking No.1. The game was one …
Read More »GMA 2011: Games Media Legend and Rising Star
You have just over two weeks to make sure your views count in the run-up to this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Games. If you haven’t already lobbied, you have until Monday July 25th. Simply email gma@intentmedia.co.uk with your suggestions for the Games Media Legend and Rising …
Read More »Multiplay’s i43 heads to Telford
The latest iteration of Multiplay’s i-Series takes the competitive gaming event to a new venue: Telford International Centre. i43 will take place over the August bank holiday weekend (Friday, August 26th to Monday, August 29th) and will see gamers battling in a range of tournaments for money, games and hardware. …
Read More »GMA Hall of Fame: Dave Cook
MCV talks to the previous winners of a Games Media Award. This week, NowGamer’s Dave Cook talks to MCV about life as a games journalist. How did it feel to win a Games Media Award last year? Unexpected as always. I thought my first win back in 2008 was a …
Read More »Digital gamers spend £24 a month
Gamers are spending over 20 every month on digital content. MCV’s survey into the habits and opinions of download-loving gamers showed that on average regular users of these services spend 24 on apps, virtual items, DLC, downloads and subscriptions. We surveyed 633 gamers that regularly use services like PSN, XBLA, …
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