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The mid-year report from leading reviews aggregation site Metacritic suggests that while sales might be suffering year-on-year gamers have so far in 2010 enjoyed better quality games that were on offer the year before. So far this year seven titles have achieved review score averages of 90 per cent or …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Disney
E3 saw the games business out in force in California, home to Hollywood and Disneyland, to flaunt an industry producing content that can match the production values and market potential of some of the world’s biggest blockbuster movies. Disney was there for opposite reasons. The group has a famous track …
Read More »64% prefer discs to digital
New research claims that consumers consider physical product to be more important in games than in newspapers, films or music. A survey of over 1,000 people by research firm Ipsos MediaCT found that 64 per cent preferred physical discs for their games over digital copies. Newspapers followed closely with 63 …
Read More »Amazon crowned UKs biggest etailer
Online leader Amazon has once again been named as the biggest etailer in the UK by analyst Experian HitWise. TechRadar reports that Amazon has claimed the top spot every year since the firm started producing the league table. Catalogue specialist Argos claimed second place just ahead of entertainment giant Play.com …
Read More »Pachter: Industry in permanent decline
We expect investors to remain spooked by the May results, as they are beginning to reinforce the notion that the video game industry is in a state of persistent secular decline.” That’s the somewhat startling assessment of famed games analyst Michael Pachter in light of further declines in the US …
Read More »Disney: Monetisation key to Tapulous deal
Disney has confirmed last night’s report that it has acquired Tap Tap Revenge developer Tapulous. And the media giant says one of the key reasons it bought the iPhone games firm is due to its innovative magnetisation model. Tap Tap Revenge is available as a mix of free and premium …
Read More »Dare 2010: Meet the Teams
Profiles of the competition entries kick-start a new series of articles
Read More »OPINION: Apples response analysed
Could Apple recall the iPhone 4? Will they dish out free bumpers for everyone? Is there actually no problem at all and we’ve allowed ourselves all to be brought into the hype? Opinions will continue to differ, but Apple has at last published a full and lengthy response to the …
Read More »iPhone 4 – Apple’s OFFICIAL response
Apple has at long last issued a full response to the ongoing crisis enveloping the iPhone 4 and its antenna design. And here it is in full: Dear iPhone 4 Users, The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers …
Read More »Play Crackdown 2, get Perfect Dark content
Rare has announced an interesting piece of promotional cross-IP marketing with the confirmation of a special reward for Perfect Dark players. The developer has confirmed that its recent Xbox Live release Perfect Dark already has within it a playable version of Crackdown 2’s lead character Agent 4. Anyone who next …
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