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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 …
Read More »Nintendo buys its own TV show
Nintendo is to bankroll its own TV show on UK channel Five – as games’ growing fiscal dominance of other media hits a new milestone. The platform holder has struck an Advertiser-Funded Programming (AFP) deal with the channel for Britain’s Best Brain. MCV understands the partnership, which Nintendo will use …
Read More »Bleszinski: id buyout will offer stability
But the Epic creative director warns that maintaining a studioâ??s identity and culture is essential
Read More »Realtime Worlds bolsters management team
Joshua Howard joins developer as program manager
Read More »505 Games secures Grease licence
It’s news that will be greeted with nothing less than total delight from its hords of fans – 505 Games has captured the rights to publish a video game based on cherished film licence Grease. The game, which is being developed by UK outfit Zoe Mode, is being produced in …
Read More »Reborn Woolworths bursts into life
Woolworths.co.uk has kicked off a nationwide marketing campaign to draw consumers to its site, in a sign of its strength as a reborn retailer. The site sells items across three ‘shops’: the main Woolworths.co.uk site, Entertainment and Party & Pick’n’Mix. And after officially launching last week, the firm has now …
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