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Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off key games for Apple’s iPhone at the company’s WWDC event last night. Developers from Sega, Digital Legends, eBay, Loopt and others were on hand to show off what content they had created, from enterprise apps to entertainment, using the iPhone SDK – which Jobs …
Read More »Atari Inc appoints new SVP of Sales
US video games publisher Atari Inc has appointed Tim Flynn as senior VP of sales. The new position is effective immediately, and Flynn will report to CEO and President, Jim Wilson. Flynn has more than 30 years of sales and retail experience in the video game and technology industries with …
Read More »Apple unveils $199 3G iPhone, shows third-party apps
Device lands on July 11th; games by Sega and co. once again displayed
Read More »Phew! What a scorcher
Historically something of a dry spell for the games market, the summer period has seen a number of publishers over the past couple of years enjoy sizzling sales thanks to the timely roll-out of key titles during the release drought. But this summer the temperature has risen further, as triple-A …
Read More »Ubisoft in for Take Two?
Ubisoft is perfectly placed to snatch Take Two from under EA’s nose in a shock merger – and may well have a very keen eye on the publisher’s sports portfolio. That’s according to respected business bible Forbes, which today fingered the French firm as a possible contender to EA in …
Read More »Wii Fit still AWOL on UK High Street
Nintendo’s Wii Fit has failed to register a position in ChartTrack/ELSPA’s official All Formats Top 40 chart for the third week in a row . The culprit for the below par performance looks certain to be severe lack of stock – something High Street retailers have continually contacted MCV to …
Read More »UK CHART: Lego Indy knocks GTA off top spot
LucasArts’ Lego Indiana Jones has become the first game in six weeks to outsell Rockstar’s GTA IV, according to official ChartTrack/ELSPA data. The game replaces GTA IV at the top of the All Formats chart, having outsold it by three-to-one over the past week. Sales of the title are split …
Read More »Warcraft more shameful than porn
A leading psychiatrist in the treatment of online game addiction has revealed that some World Of Warcraft users are more ashamed of being addicted to the game than to online porn. Speaking to The Boston Globe, Dr Jerald Block spoke about the rise in internet addiction and some of the …
Read More »Two more publishers leaving ESA?
The head of US gamers’ consumers group the Entertainment Consumers Association has said that he knows of two more games companies that are planning to leave US publisher body the Entertainment Software Association. Hal Halpin told the Washington Post that a duo of firms were set to join Activision, Vivendi …
Read More »JAPAN: PSP rules May hardware sales
Sony’s PSP continues to dominate the Japanese hardware market, after clocking up 270,750 sales in May. According to data exclusively given to MCV by our media partner Famitsu/Enterbrain, the handheld took 37.3 per cent of all console sales in the month. It was followed by Wii, which shifted 220,052 units …
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