Game industry business news

While Nintendo’s most senior executives were publicly criticising the App Store for ‘weakening the value’ of games, behind closed doors Apple may be advocating premium prices on its influential digital store. According to UK studio Somethin’ Else, Apple encouraged the group to raise the price of its award-winning iOS game …

EA have an entirely new team running the Asia-Pacific region from its Sydney office, which is headed up by former EA UK sales director Mark Bradley. Bradley previously spend almost 5 years working at EA in the UK in multiple sales roles before becoming the general manager of the Nordic …

GAME will be selling PlayStation Network games in-store across all its 620 UK stores by mid-September. This morning the pair announced a partnership to start selling digital content at bricks and mortar – at first a range of over 50 games will be sold via 42 stores, gradually rolling out …

We look at the latest TV advertising activity for games targeting men, children and housewives. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. This week we take a look at the year-on-year weekly marketing dynamics from March 13th to July 24th, for males …

Nintendo has announced that Just Dance 2 has now sold over 5m copies in the US. It’s only the eighth title to do so and is the first from a third party publisher. Worldwide sales for the game stand at 14m. Here is the complete list of 5m+ sellers: 1. …

Way back in April last year tech blog Gizmodo shocked the tech world with its first and very much unofficial look at Apple’s still unannounced iPhone 4. Now the man behind the scoop has been charged by US police. Brian Hogan sold the handset for $5,000 after supposedly finding it …

Electronics manufacturer Panasonic has landed an exclusive Blu-ray deal that it hopes will win it vital market share this Q4. The company will be offering free copies of the original Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray when consumers purchase any one of a select range of Blu-ray players. The deal coincides …

MCV is celebrating 15 years of Resident Evil with special retrospectives on the franchise. Paul WS Anderson, the Hollywood movie director behind the Resident Evil films, gives us his thoughts on the franchise, and explains why he has deviated from the plot of the games. He also gives us his …

A new report from The Entertainment Merchants Association has revealed that sales of physical games on disc declined significantly in 2010. Gamasutra reports that in 2010 71 per cent of all video games sold in the US were on disc. In 2009 that figure stood at between 80 and 90 …

It may well not be the news that Half-Life 3: Episode 3 hopers have been waiting for, but if talk of Valve’s next potential game is true then gamers are in for a treat. Kotaku reports that word from folk in the testing community has suggested that a brand new …