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The North American video games market has once again defied the global credit crunch by showing significant year-on-year gains for the month of February – and Nintendo is the company that continues to impress. Figures from NPD showed that February was up 10 per cent compared to the same month …
Read More »Halo Wars passes 1m sales worldwide
Halo Wars, the Ensemble Studios RTS released for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 last month, has now sold over one million copies across the globe, the platform holder has confirmed. To date the title has seen 2.6m multiplayer matches played online, totalling up more than 118 years of total playtime. On average, …
Read More »Royal opening for Paddington Academy
HRH The Princess Royal today formally opened the highly impressive Paddington Academy. One of the games industry’s greatest charitable achievements, the specialist school for performing arts, media, business and enterprise was co-funded by the United Learning Trust and GamesAid (formerly the Entertainment Software Charity). The games industry has already donated …
Read More »Nintendo planning ‘major app strategy’ for DSi
Nintendo may publicly claim that it doesn’t consider the likes of Apple’s App Store and iPhone, or even the Google G1 phone and Android Marketplace, as competitors – but MCV sister site Develop understands the format holder is very much working on its own ‘app strategy’. Sources which attended the …
Read More »Big names to star in awards video
Top execs from all over the market are to star in the kick-off video for this year’s MCV Awards. Names are staying secret until the big night, but various staff and senior management from Nintendo, Xbox, Disney, EA, Activision, GAME, Ubisoft, CHIPS, Gamestation, Bethesda, Atari and Codemasters all feature. Last …
Read More »Casual game targets the jobless
Casual games firm TiltFactor has released a new casual title based on the current economic crisis and, more specifically, the worrying level of unemployment sweeping to the global workplace. Entitled ‘Layoff’ the game is based on the successful Bejeweled template, and sees players matching up lines of three or more …
Read More »Retail reports BAFTA boom
Retail giants Play.com and GAME have benefited from a sales surge following last week’s BAFTA video game awards. Play.com smashed its target for new customers for the week, with a 14 per cent increase in new customers over the firm’s target figures. Meanwhile, GAME Group’s COO Terry Scicluna told MCV …
Read More »Development deal for Sci Fi Channel and Acclaim
David Perry's online games firm developing new properties for genre TV giant
Read More »New publisher Gamebridge details first releases
New Euro publisher Gamebridge has revealed details of its first releases. Each will come to market in collaboration with sales and distribution partner Rising Star, as revealed in MCV last week. The first game due from the publisher in the UK is Happy Bakery for Nintendo DS on May 29th. …
Read More »Tiga’s new target for tax breaks: Scottish Government
UK trade association calls on Scottish MPs to support a tax break for games development
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