Game industry business news

After showing some impressive resilience over the last few months, the US games market has been brought crashing back to earth. NPD reports that for the month of July the games market was down 26 per cent year-on-year with a value if just $797.7m. That’s the worst single month since …

Today’s the day when Nintendo hopes that thousands of consumers who have until now been sitting on the fence over 3DS will finally buy the handheld. That’s because as of today the device has had a significant cut in trade price. But as is always the way with a big …

Mindscape Asia-Pacific (MAP) has issued a statement saying that it is unaffected by its former parent’s decision to pull out of videogames. The statement confirms that it’s still ‘business as usual’ for MAP at the Australian and New Zealand office in Sydney. Tonia Velasco, general manager of sales and marketing …

EB Games Australia has revealed a first list of confirmed EB EXPO titles, although further announcements are expected as the date draws nearer. The list doesn’t confirm which titles will be on display and which will be playable by the public, but is a good indication of building support for …

With the huge Nintendo 3DS price drop now in effect, MCV takes stock of what prices each Australian / New Zealand retailer are hitting. Australia EB Games: $248 GAME: $249 (or $254 with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D) JB HiFi: $239 (or $249 with The Sims 3 …

Google has put paid to weeks of speculation by adding a games element to its Google+ social network. And it’s done it with some heavyweight developer partners in Zynga, Rovio, PopCap, EA, Wooga, Playdom, Digital Chocolate, Funzio, Kabam, and GameHouse. That means well known online games such as Dragon Age …

Web giant widens social circles platform with Zynga, EA, Rovio and PopCap amongst partners

After a brief increase last week, the market value dipped again to 10.7m. This is inline with the week ending July 16th – also 10.7m – which was the market’s lowest point so far this year. However, unit sales were up compared to the week ending July 16th. 578,444 units …

WITH Q4 only weeks away, it’s time to start considering some of the action/adventure titles hitting the High Street. Both Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and Assassin’s Creed Revelations are on their way. It’s surprising to note that each of these two big brands will only be four years old in …

In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, the search is on for Google Chromebook Ambassadors, Havok’s Mike Walsh joins Xaitment and Koelnmesse hires a new COO. INFINITE HIRING GOOGLE AMBASSADORS Positions are now available for three Google Chromebook Brand Ambassadors located. The successful applicants …