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Kesa Electricals has revealed that its UK chain Comet made a half-year loss of 8.1m for the period up until October, with the retail chain blaming deteriorating market conditions for the results. That was in stark contrast to its 10.6m profit for the same period in 2007. MCV’s sister publication …
Read More »Atari lives
When Atari’s new CEO David Gardner and president Phil Harrison this summer told MCV that they were planning to rebuild the company around online games and not boxed product, there must have been a large contingent of readers who thought that this effectively meant the restructuring publisher was cutting its …
Read More »Silent Hill coming home in February
Konami will finally release Silent Hill Homecoming, the latest iteration in the company’s long-running survival horror series, on February 27th next year. The eagerly anticipated game is the sixth in the series and will be released on both PS3 and Xbox 360, marking the franchise’s first appearance on current generation …
Read More »Phones 4U enters games market
Mobile phone specialists Phones 4U and sister company Dial-a-Phone have launched new e-tail games sites in conjunction with The Hut. Entitled Games 4U and Click-a-Game, the websites sell a range of new and back catalogue Wii, DS, PC, PS2, 360, PlayStation 3 and PSP titles, as well as consoles and …
Read More »Rebuilding begins for Atari UK
ATARI is looking for more staff and an increased market share in the UK, as its rebuilding process prepares to kick in during 2009. Alberto Gonzalez Lorca is now managing director of the Atari Atlantic region, which includes the UK as well as Spain, Nordic and Latin America. We are …
Read More »Metallica: Video games and music industry to merge
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett believe collaborative projects between bands and video game developers, such as the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica, could lead to the music and games industries merging. In an interview with USA Today, the celebrities were asked what they think of video games as a music …
Read More »System 3 reveals SuperCar Challenge
Publisher System 3 has announced a follow-up to PS3, Wii, DS and PS2 racer Ferrari Challenge, though this time the series is set to be a PS3 exclusive. SuperCar Challenge is built on the same engine as the former title, and will include 40 vehicles including the Aston Martin DB9, …
Read More »Bush’s shoe exploits get the games treatment
Proving that its finger is still on the topical pulse, Glasgow-based Flash games developer T-Enterprise has launched a game based on the shoe-throwing exploits of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi. To read the full story, and find out where you can play the game, click here to head over to CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »Phelps officially swimming to consoles
UK publisher 505 Games has confirmed that it is to publish a brand new title based on record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. Talk of the game first emerged earlier in the month when Phelps mentioned it in an interview on US TV show 60 Seconds. Development is being handled by …
Read More »SingStar backwards compatibility update goes live
One year on from the release of the globally popular PS3 version of Sony’s SingStar series, the platform holder has announced that the long awaited backwards compatibility update will be released today. To read the full story, click here to head over to CasualGaming.biz.
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