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As Call of Duty flew of shelves, Viacom waved the white flag on games, announcing plans to sell off prize studio Harmonix – just a matter of days after the team’s praised Rock Band 3 and Dance Central games arrived. The console game business requires an expertise we do not …
Read More »OPINION: The big media
UK games retail’s boom week of 113m wasn’t just serendipitously timed to blow rival entertainment launches out of the water. It coincided with a clear change in direction for ‘Big Media’ when it comes to games. As Call of Duty flew of shelves, Viacom waved the white flag on games, …
Read More »Cousens: F1 can be our FIFA
The recent All Formats No.1 was just the start of what will become a long-term, highly lucrative and critically lauded relationship with Formula 1, Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has told MCV. It will also broaden the appeal of the game next year with releases for new handheld formats, plus a …
Read More »Indies applaud Gem support for Kinect
Independent retailers say they ultimately did not miss out when must-have Xbox 360 peripheral Kinect rolled out last week. Key specialists have praised Gem and Microsoft for their handling of stock allocations. Indie chain Grainger Games told MCV the launch of Kinect went exceptionally well, with in-store space dedicated to …
Read More »Retailers hail £113m Black Ops boom week
The Black Ops boom has put UK games retail back on track after months of facing year-on-year market decline. The FPS made over 80m in the UK last week, and sold over 2m units in five days – helping the High Street towards its biggest week for games ever: 113m …
Read More »Now GameStop warns of Kinect, Move shortages
Perhaps the warning from Microsoft’s Don Mattrick wasn’t just hyperbole – GameStop also reckons that motion controllers are going to sell out this Christmas. In fact the global games retail giant says both Microsoft Kinect and Sony’s Move will see tight supply as seasonal spending ramps up. Speaking in the …
Read More »Reeves predicts Xbox/PlayStation hybrid
Never one to be afraid of making bold comments, former Sony Computer Entertainment president David Reeves has made his most startling prediction yet – that platform holders such as Sony and Microsoft could co-develop a console within the next decade. When you’re on the first-party side, you realise how really, …
Read More »Zynga announces CityVille
Casual games giant Zynga has revealed that it is to launch a public beta for its brand new title CityVille in the coming weeks”.Gamasutra reports that the game will be localised in five different languages – English, German, Italian, Spanish and French. The studio promises that the game will be …
Read More »LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean announced
Star Wars: Check. Batman: Check. Indiana Jones: Check. Harry Potter: Check. Pirates of the Caribbean: why not? Yep, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films will be the next to receive the LEGO treatment, courtesy of UK developer TT Games. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game will be published …
Read More »Pre-owned claims 50% of GameStop profit
GameStop has revealed that sales of pre-owned game products accounted for 47.4 per cent of the company’s profit for the three months ending October 2010. In total pre-owned was worth $528.m, with profit of $250.2m. By comparison profit from new games reached $182.4m (21.7 per cent of the quarter’s total) …
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