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ESA, the organizers of America’s leading video games trade show E3, has revealed its initial list of exhibitors for the upcoming event – confirming the support of all three console platform holders. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will be joined by the likes of EA, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, THQ, Sega, Disney, …
Read More »MCV AWARDS ’09: Could it be you?
Have YOU lobbied for an MCV Award yet? You have just over two weeks left to tell the MCV team why you should be a finalist in this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The MCV Awards return to The Brewery on Thursday April 23rd – and by lobbying the MCV …
Read More »Gamescom ‘wins’ as Leipzig cancels August event
The August Leipzig Games Convention has been cancelled. The organisers of the event confirmed the news as it announced a brand new event, Games Convention Online, due to take place from July 31st to August 2nd. Until this morning, the organisers were in a standoff with rival event Gamescom from …
Read More »Gamescom hosts international meeting
Cologne’s Gamescom trade event will host a meeting between ‘around a dozen’ member associations from the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) next month. The members will get together in Cologne’s trade fair centre on February 9th and 10th for their first meeting in 2009. Olaf Wolters, Managing Director of …
Read More »JAPAN: FFXIII demo to ship with Advent Children
Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that a demo of Final Fantasy XIII will be included with the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in Japan. The news first appeared in Japanese gaming bible Famitsu. However, there are currently no plans to run a similar promotion in other territories. …
Read More »New categories announced for MCV Awards 09
New retail and marketing categories are being introduced to the MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Although the total number of awards on the evening will remain at 17, the retail section has been almost entirely overhauled. Every retailer, whatever size or product specialism, can now compete for all five prizes. There …
Read More »JAPAN: Blu-ray hardware outsells DVD for the first time
Stats from Gfk Retail and Technology Japan have revealed that in the first week of November Blu-ray disc recording hardware outsold DVD recorders for the first time. In the same period last year Blu-ray disc recorders accounted for just ten per cent of the market, but falling prices in recent …
Read More »JAPAN: DSi sells half a million
Though European gamers still have no idea when Nintendo’s third generation DS handheld will arrive on continental soil, the DSi has enjoyed a great start in Japan with a solid first month’s sales. Figures from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain show that the DSi sold 535,379 units in its first month on …
Read More »JAPAN: 7m sales and counting for Wii
Nintendo is surely spending another day in cash-fuelled party mode today following another sales milestone for the firm – its massively successful Wii home console has now surpassed the seven million sales mark in Japan. The success mirrors that enjoyed by Nintendo’s console in the US. To read more, click …
Read More »Big name advisory board for Cologne show
A host of names have stepped up to back next year’s Gamescom event. The city of Cologne and its Mayor plus the G.A.M.E. trade association have joined the likes of Nintendo, EA, Sega, Microsoft, Sony and the other members of German trade group BIU to support to support the new …
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