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Distributor CentreSoft won the final honour of the night at the MCV Awards: the Grand Prix. It also won the best high street distributor prize earlier in the night. The double-win comes after the firm celebrated its 30th year of trading last year. In its impressive history in the UK …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2013: Two key wins for Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts won one of the top prizes at last night’s MCV Awards after ending 2012 as the No.1 publisher. The firm won the coveted Games Publisher of the Year prize, as voted for by a panel of 80 industry judges. It also claimed the important UK Sales Team prize. …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2013: Ubisoft takes home five key prizes
Ubisoft won the most prizes at the MCV Awards. It took home three key industry accolades and two prizes for Assassin’s Creed III at the MCV Awards. The publisher won Digital Distribution Team, Export Sales Team and Marketing Team. Meanwhile its efforts on Assassin’s Creed III won it the two …
Read More »MCV AWARDS: See EA’s Battlefield 4 ad
Attendees of last night’s MCV Awards 2013 were treated to a big-screen look at EA’s impressive 60-second Battlefield 4 ad. And the good news is you can see it right here. Battlefield 4 looks to push the graphical envelope further than ever before thanks to the power of EA’s Frostbite …
Read More »DICE seeks Masters student to study VR tech
Battlefield studio seeks student to investigate Oculus Rift for possible Frostbite integration
Read More »Revenue leaps 56% at Microsoft’s Xbox division; Console sales begin to fall
Ye olde Xbox 360 continues to defy its years. Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division – home of amongst other things its Xbox operations – saw revenues increase 56 per cent year-on-year for the three months ending March 31st, hitting $2.53bn. The numbers were credited to higher Xbox 360 platform and …
Read More »20% of Australian video games sold online
NPD Group is stating that during all-important December last year, one in five customers was going online for their purchase. This is up from one in ten (10%) for the same period in 2012. The majority of such online purchases were for items under AUD$50, with a significant drop-off occuring …
Read More »Xbox Live subs grow 18% to 46m
Microsoft has sold 77 million units of the Xbox 360
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2013: Hard work pays off for UK’s best
Some of the most proactive and innovative firms in the UK games business took home top honours at this evening’s MCV Awards. 16 different companies claimed the trade’s most coveted awards, voted for by a judging panel of peers and senior execs. CentreSoft won the highest honour, the Grand Prix, …
Read More »Dustforce dev discusses the importance of digital sales promotions
The developer behind indie title Dustforce has explained the importance of digital sales promotions to the eventual success of the title. Hitbox launched the game in January 2012. It admits in its very thorough report that it had no idea what kind of sales performance it ought to expect. But …
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