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Read More »Managing Football Manager
What’s the biggest difference between marketing an MMO and a more traditional video game? With the traditional MMO market, where you see the likes of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings and Warhammer, a lot of those users are aware of what an MMO is. What we have with Football Manager …
Read More »Gamefest moves to 2010
'09 outing of Microsoft's developer event moved based on 'feedback from partners'
Read More »MCV Awards lobbying – all you need to know
The MCV Awards ’09 will take place on Thursday, April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London. And you now have just one month to help us decide who makes the shortlist. By lobbying the MCV team, you can nominate yourself or another oustanding individual or company which has gone …
Read More »HMV deadly serious about games
Games made up 21 per cent of the record revenues taken by HMV in its ‘best ever Christmas’, MCV can reveal. As revealed by Mcvuk.com last week (14/01/09), the retailer defied the odds on the High Street to pull off its biggest ever Christmas – enjoying a three per cent …
Read More »Best Buy UK team revealed
The planned UK invasion by Best Buy continues this week, as the firm finalises its games team. Former GAME exec Marc Spence has joined the US electronics retailer as head of domain for entertainment, where he will cover all games systems and console software. Spence joins from Home Retail Group, …
Read More »Tiga outlines education plans
Current business-university connections are 'wide-ranging' but 'need to be developed further'
Read More »UK officially enters recession
The UK government has confirmed that the nation’s gross domestic product fell by 1.5 per cent in the final three months of 2008, and following the 0.6 per cent drop in the previous quarter it means that the UK is now officially in recession. The drop off is the most …
Read More »Manchester studio closed by Eidos
Eidos has confirmed to Develop that it has close its Rockpool Games studio in Manchester. Around 14 Rockpool staff have been made redundant as part of the move. The publisher bought the studio in February 2007 to boost its presence in the casual games sector. Developmag.com has the full story …
Read More »Are job cuts on the way at Xbox?
Following the news that Microsoft is to shed some 5,000 jobs in the next 18 months, with 1,400 of them happening immediately, sources are claiming that its Xbox division could be a potential victim of the culls. ZDnet is reporting that Microsoft is directly targeting its Entertainment and Devices Division, …
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