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Having surprised us all with the announcement of The Elder Scrolls Online yesterday, ZeniMax has released the first details of the already hotly anticipated title. The info comes from US games mag Game Informer, which has the world-first exclusive on the game. Visually TESO will look quite different to what …
Read More »Thatgamecompany to sign new publisher deal this month
A new publishing deal for its next, still secret title should be agreed within the month, indie developer Thatgamecompany has said. Furthermore, it also expects to announce its fourth game before the end of the year. It takes us a little bit of time to basically readjust after the three …
Read More »HMV and Asda "best-placed" to grab GAME market share
Consumer research firm Kantar Worldpanel has said that HMV and Asda are best-placed” to gain from this year’s spate of GAME and Gamestation closures. [GAME’s] customer requires a more specialist, in-depth range,” analyst Craig Armer told Retail Week. HMV had said it would trim its range of games but I …
Read More »GAME exec joins ShopTo
MCV Awards winner ShopTo has recruited Alison Fraser as its new senior buyer. Fraser is a GAME and Gamestation exec of ten years, and she most recently held the position of key account manager, handling publishers such as Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros, Sega and THQ. The new appointment comes as …
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Read More »E-Xpress expands low-price PC games catalogue
Indian games distributor E-Xpress Interactive has expanded its E-play range of low priced PC games to over 120 titles. The E-play catalogue contains games priced between Rs 199 ($4) and Rs 299 ($6) from publishers such as Ubisoft, Square Enix, THQ, Sega and Take-Two. While console gaming remains the highest …
Read More »What’s driving the decline in games advertising?
The games and consoles TV advertising market is at a five-year low.This market consists of six key sectors, and we’re going to look at which are responsible for the decline. The bars in the chart (below) represent the year-on-year percentage change in TV activity. The squares demonstrate the relative contribution …
Read More »Brand Map: 39% of Pokémon players are female
Over a third of Pokmon players are female, according to a new GameVision Brand Map report. 39 per cent of all players of Nintendo’s huge franchise are female, which is higher than the average game (31 per cent).Males aged 15 to 19 comprise a further 13 per cent of the …
Read More »UK games retail generated £10.45m last week
The launch of Prototype 2 helped the boxed market rise slightly over the prior week, with overall unit sales up five per cent to 441,401 games sold. It’s Activision’s first No.1 of the year. UK games retail generated 10.45m overall from sales last week – an increase of eight per …
Read More »Friday’s Five-Second Facts
Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting. 284mLoss reported at Nintendo for the year ending March 31stRead more 17.3mUncharted games sold worldwide to dateRead more 2.1%Decline in like-for-like store sales at GameStop for its financial year ending January 28th, 2012Read more …
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