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In the second of our four interviews with various heads of EA’s businesses, we discuss retailing and Steam with EA Origin boss David DeMartini Origin has grown well in its first year. But what’s stopping rival publishers from launching their own service?This isn’t easy. We have tried a couple of …
Read More »After EA, Sony increases game prices in India
After EA announced that it was increasing prices for its upcoming console titles to Rs 2,999, Sony has now increased the prices for some of its older releases, including the Platinum range. While budget-priced Platinum titles such as God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5 and Infamous 2 have received …
Read More »Top Bioshock Infinite team members depart from Irrational
At least a handful of members from the Bioshock Infinite development team have departed six months ahead of the game’s current release date. Design lead Jeff McGann, director of product development Tim Gerritsen, principal systems designer Kenneth Strickland, and art director Nate Wells all list Irrational as a past employer …
Read More »US digital sales up year over year during second quarter
Encouraging news coming out of the NPD today, as the group revealed digital sales for Q2 2012 were up year over year by 17 per cent. The amount spent in the US on video game content in all forms from April to June totaled $2.88bn. That figure divides into $1bn …
Read More »John Schappert resigns from Zynga
An SEC filing has revealed John Schappert has resigned from his role as COO at Zynga. The news comes no more than a week following Schappert’s reported removal from his game development duties with the company. "We can confirm that John Schappert has left Zynga and its Board of Directors …
Read More »Zynga COO John Schappert quits
Resignation comes after former EA exec was stripped of games oversight in board reshuffle
Read More »Steam expanding digital library with non-games
Creativity and productivity software coming to distribution platform from September 5th
Read More »Non-games head to Steam as digital distribution competition heats up
Valve has added an important weapon to the arsenal supporting its games download service – and it’s non-games. From September 5th the firm will be selling ‘creativity to productivity’ software on the store which has 40m registered users. So that means non-games sold alongside Valve’s own Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 …
Read More »Zynga board game lands retail exclusivity, offers digital content
Argos has been unveiled as the exclusive UK supplier of Zynga’s upcoming board game FarmVille Hungry Hungry Herd. The product will release in October with an RRP of 19.99. It will also include a DLC code that grants players of the Facebook title a virtual currency boost. The release is …
Read More »The many faces of EA: Andrew Wilson, EA Sports
In the first of four interviews, MCV looks at different aspects of EA’s business. First up, we sit down with EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson. One of the few surprises at E3 this year was that EA has secured the Ultimate Fighting Championship licence from THQ in a multi-game deal. …
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