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Sony had planned to release a ‘network centric’ model of the PSP ever since the beginning, according to an interview on website GameBusiness.jp. In an interview with the head of SCE’s product planning division, Naoya Matsui, it has been revealed that the company was simply waiting for the digital pipeline …
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â?¦to start a crowdsourced gallery of action figure pictures
Read More »No more Wii for No More Heroes
Wii’s hardcore gaming credentials have taken another knock with the news that one of its leading mature brands is unlikely to appear again on the system. No More Heroes, a title from Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture, is one of the leading hardcore titles on the system and a sequel is …
Read More »Blu-ray sales boom in UK
Some good news for Blu-ray at last. New numbers from the British Video Association show that 3.1m of the hi-def discs have been sold so far in 2009 – that’s a 231 per cent increase on the same period last year. The knock-on has of course been a dip in …
Read More »Sony planned UMD-less PSP ‘from the beginning’
Platform holder was simply waiting for digital market to mature, says head of product planning
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Fallout 3: Anchorage & Pitt
Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, where MCV offers a guide to the best games heading to retail this month. This week, we take a look at Bethesda’s Fallout 3 Game Add-On Pack: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt. This expansion pack brings the first two DLC episodes …
Read More »Universal takes on SingStar
Universal Music has pledged its back catalogue to a new karaoke game set to challenge SingStar. MCV can reveal that French label Mindscape will publish U-Sing in time for Christmas across the UK and Europe. The firm has previously signed distribution deals with UK publishers for releases in the territory …
Read More »UK console installed base tops 24m
This generation of consoles has sold 24 million units in the UK to date – up 8.4 million in the last 12 months. According to GfK-ChartTrack data for sales up to June 27th, 2009, DS enjoys the biggest installed base with 9.1 million, up 2.7 million from the same period …
Read More »GAME sales dip in H1 2009
The GAME Group has reported like-for-like sales in H1 2009 were down 15.4 per cent – in line with what the company had forecast. In the 21 weeks to June 27th, 2009, total Group sales dropped 9.1 per cent on the firm’s previous half-year. In the UK and Ireland, total …
Read More »Activision eying up EA sports market
The world’s largest third party publisher Activision Blizzard has once again squared up to former king EA by stating that it would consider making a move into the sports genre – though only if the right opportunity comes its way. "[The sports category] certainly has the characteristics of a category …
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