Game industry business news

Not long after promising news about the not as bad as expected January on the UK High Street, it has now emerged that London retailers saw a sharp increase in trade last month. Retail Week reports that like-for-like sales in the capital last month were 6.5 per cent up on …

What would you say is a key product to stock during February? Halo Wars? Killzone 2? How about an Xbox Live points card. In fact, it would be a good idea to stock up on some of last year’s biggest releases as well, with major downloadable content coming for Grand …

Nintendo is bringing some reinvented GameCube classics to the Wii over the next few months – and MCV has been granted an exclusive look. Titles such as Pikmin, Pikmin 2, Mario Power Tennis and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat are guaranteed a warm reception at retail – and to wow Wii …

Whilst some stockists claim to be continuing to struggle to get their hands on copies of Wii Fit, enough of Nintendo’s title has clearly made it into the channel to secure a fifth successive week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack UK All Formats Top 40 this week. It’s …

Publisher Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is to become the latest title to receive a Platinum release on PS3 – meaning that from March 5th consumers will be able to pick it up for 24.95. Konami’s epic, which was developed by Kojima Productions, has shipped over …

UK PC sales in the fourth quarter continued to grow at a rapid pace, despite a rising dollar, on-going recession and stalling shipments worldwide. According to figures released by IDC, more than 3.8 million PCs were sold during the fourth quarter, an increase of 13.3 per cent on the same …

Sony has decided not to renew the leases on the PlayStation Store and Sony Style outlets in San Francisco’s Metreon Shopping Center. The 350,000 square foot PlayStation store was originally opened in June 1999 and has hosted the West Coast launches for Sony’s flagship products, including the PS2, PSP and …

Tesco has opened its first Superstore branded outlet at the flagship retail development Liverpool One, with the supermarket going head-to-head with other city-centre non-food retailers like Currys.digital and Carphone Warehouse. The 28,600sq ft store opened today (Monday February 16th) and signals the retailer’s move away from only stocking a limited …

Ensemble Studios co-founder Tony Goodman and several colleagues have formed a new development house named Robot Entertainment. MCV’s sister site Develop has the full story right here.

Korean MMO specialist NCsoft has recorded a fall in both operating profit and net profit for its 2008 fiscal year, though its results for the final quarter of the year were all positive, leading to a strong outlook for 2009. Fiscal 2008 operating profit fell 15 per cent year-on-year to …