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Kenji Matsubara, the former Tecmo Koei CEO, is to join Zynga’s Japanese business arm. Matsubara will begin his duties on May 9th. The social studio’s current CEO of Japan operations, Robert Goldberg, will step down but is said will advise Matsubara in a consultancy role. Goldberg said he was very …
Read More »Ignition: Japanese market is shrinking
Ignition Entertainment believes the market for games that specifically target Japanese consumers is diminishing. Speaking to Siliconera, business development director Shane Bettenhausen claimed that there are very few studios in the region that are able to achieve strong sales without assistance from larger companies in the West. There are very …
Read More »Ticket discount for Learning without Frontiers
Develop readers have been offered a 25 ticket discount for the upcoming Learning Without Frontiers event in London. The previous London edition of the conference held speeches from the likes of Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton, Sony Europe senior vice president Ray Maguire, Media Molecule’s Kareem Ettouney and Wikipedia …
Read More »Social networks trump porn in UK
The popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter has seen the sector overtake entertainment – a category that includes adult entertainment and pornography – in the online popularity tables. TechWatch reports that a new report from Experian Hitwise shows that social networks attracted 2.4bn visits in the …
Read More »German Monkey business bodes well for UK
The boxed edition of Tales of Monkey Island has taken Germany by storm, and publisher Lace Mamba Global hopes to repeat the success in the UK. The game has become the top-selling adventure title on Amazon.de for more than eight weeks in a row. It reaches UK shelves on April …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Dragon Age II grabs No.1
Dragon Age II is the UK’s new No.1, according to the latest chart info released by UKIE GfK Chart-Track. It’s EA’s third No.1 of 2011 and marks the fourth week the publisher has claimed a game at the chart summit. In doing so it bumps last week’s chart topper Pokemon …
Read More »New sponsor announced as MCV Awards sells out
Nordic Games is the latest firm to sponsor this year’s MCV Awards. The We Sing firm has signed up as Drinks Reception Host just as the final tickets were sold, once again making the MCV Awards a sell-out event. The MCV Awards lets us share the golden and often personal …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2011: It’s all up for grabs
58 companies. 20 different games. 17 retailers. 12 publishers. Whichever way you cut it, the 19 prizes at this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards are going to be contested by a diverse number of businesses. Sure, a clutch of the finalists were inevitable choices.11 nominations for Microsoft is a fitting …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2011: Finalists unveiled
Nearly 60 companies from across the games industry are nominated for prizes at this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Microsoft and Ubisoft lead the pack, with 11 and nine finalist places respectively. From physical retail to digital distribution, via publishers and peripherals brands, the nominated firms from across the trade …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2011: Special Recognition Finalists
Six much-loved faces from the trade are in the running for our Retail Advisory Board’s Special Recognition Award this year. The award, voted for solely by our Advisory Board of 17 key retail figures, acknowledges the people that work closely with the trade – and singles them out for their …
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