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After picking up an MCV Award this year, HMV’s Gamerbase is going from strength to strength – playing a key role in the retailer’s healthy financials last week. As the retailer opens a new Glasgow branch, Tim Ingham interviews head of the division, Dominic Mulroy…Let’s start simple: for the uninitiated, what …
Read More »JAPAN: Warner movies available on Wii
Warner Bros. movies are now available to rent through the Nintendo Wii in Japan. As revealed by IGN, 54 films will be made available, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, Contact, Batman Begins, Last Samurai, The Goonies, Free Willy and 2001: A Space Odyssey. …
Read More »Battlefield celebrates twin success
EA’s Battlefield brand has notched up two notable achievement overnight marking a notable victory for both free-to-play gaming and digital only releases. First off, online free-to-play cel-shaded PC title Battlefield Heroes has welcomed its one millionth player less than a month after it was first released. The team is really …
Read More »Why Realtime Worlds chose online
Develop '09: Dave Jones on why the Dundee giant left the single-player world behind
Read More »Team 17’s guide to digital distribution pitfalls
Develop '09: Yorkshire digital-only studio shares some hard-earned lessons
Read More »FIFA 10 dated for October
FIFA 10 will be released in the UK on October 2nd, MCV can reveal. EA today told MCV that the title would be supported by a multi-million pound campaign". Insiders have told MCV that this is widely expected to be EA Sports’ biggest marketing campaign to date in the UK. …
Read More »The Go Team
EXCLUSIVE: Sony's new PSP dev plans in-depth
Read More »Four Play
Meet the studios reshaping PSP game creation
Read More »UK weekly game sales dip below £20 million
The UK video games market weekly value has dropped seven per cent, dipping below 20 million for the first time in two months. According to MCV calculations, based on this week’s Gfk-ChartTrack/ELSPA report, games retail took 18.7 million for the weekend ending July 10th. Unit sales dipped one per cent …
Read More »Unbelievable Modern Warfare SKU revealed
Forget postcards, leather cases and flimsy plastic figures – Infinity Ward has showed everyone else how Collector’s Editions should be done with the revelation that the Prestige Edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will include a set of real night vision goggles. Described as ‘fully-functioning’, the goggles are …
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