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Read More »Games of 2010 – Industry Picks
No matter what console you own and what sort of games you’re into, 2010 was a great year for gamers of all varieties. Here MCV asks a number of key industry execs for their personal picks – with some surprising results. To read the full list, which includes contributions from …
Read More »2010 Review Oct-Dec
The Q4 sales season arrives with huge performances from Black Ops and FIFA 11. There’s less good news for industry favourite Tim Langdell, however, whose legal tirade is finally ended. Sony decided to lop 65 off the price of a PSPgo, but that’s quickly forgotten as details of two new …
Read More »Games eclipse fitness DVD market
Fitness video games are outselling their DVD rivals according to Chart-Track figures. In the UK, Davina McCall’s best-selling range of fitness DVDs have sold 830,000 copies in the last four years according to the British Video Association. In comparison, Wii Fit has sold 4.4m copies across the UK since April …
Read More »Kongregate $25k contest for Unity developers
Competition now open; $10,000 first place prize
Read More »West/Zampella accused of’â??secret EA meeting’
Activision claims EA jetted the Infinity Ward duo to its HQ
Read More »2010 Review July-Sep
As ‘Antennagate’ rumbled on Apple responded with one of the most astonishing press releases ever released – not that any of it stopped the iPhone 4 outselling Microsoft’s Kin by what can only be described as a gargantuan amount. Developer Tim Schafer laid into Bobby Kotick and Microsoft finally confirmed …
Read More »Activision suing EA over Infinity Ward claims
The legal spat between Activision and the former owners of Infinity Ward has taken another interesting twist with news that Activision is now suing EA as part of its lawsuit. Amongst the many accusations in Activision’s original lawsuit against Jason West and Vince Zampella was one of "insubordination", with suggestions …
Read More »Black Ops sales pass $1bn
Activision’s November release Call of Duty: Black Ops has now generated revenues in excess of $1bn. It hit the milestone in just six weeks on the market. The achievement is just the latest in a long line of impressive accomplishments by the game. In its first week in the UK …
Read More »1.5m WP7 phones shipped
A total of 1.5m Windows Phone 7 handsets have been shipped since its launch six weeks ago, Microsoft claims. We started fresh with Windows Phone 7, and it’s a different kind of phone,” vice president of business and marketing for Windows phones Achim Berg said in an interview posted on …
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