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The five episodes that comprise the first season of The Walking Dead will be released on disc at retail, developer Telltale has announced. To date the games have been available to download individually for around 4 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Alternatively, the 15.99 season pass grants users all …
Read More »GAME signs up as Eurogamer Expo partner
Former expo rivals GAME and Eurogamer have seemingly put their differences aside. One of 2011’s most interesting face-offs was the conflict between Eurogamer’s successful Expo event and GAME’s debut consumer tradeshow GAMEfest, which was tagged on to its annual manager’s conference. However, after its torrid start to the year that …
Read More »White Vita boosts Japanese sales
The launch of the Crystal White Vita has nearly doubled the handheld’s weekly sales in Japan. Enterbrain reports that Vita sales for the week ending July 1st reached 22,638 – a massive improvement over the 12,000-13,000 units shifted the week before, according to VG247. However, software sales remain slow. There …
Read More »Read our guide to UK games retail in this week’s MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features our four page guide to UK games retail’s top buyers. We also interview EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson and football legend Gianluca Vialli. The magazine is available for iPad. Download our app now, which includes access to the …
Read More »UK games store count plummets
There are 300 fewer games specialists on the High Street in 2012. MCV?research has shown the combined number of GAME, HMV and Blockbuster outlets has plummeted from 1,465 to just 1,144. GAME took the biggest hit, with hundreds of branches closed when the chain went into administration in March. Conversely, …
Read More »Terrifying horror game Slender available for free
Is it the scariest game ever made? Early commentators seem to think so. Slender is based on a character that emerged from a Something Awful thread that challenged users to create paranormal images. The thin, stretchy antagonist went on to become online meme. Now the beta of Parsec Productions’ spin-off …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Digital pressure on retail
Laurie Krohn, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, outlines pressures on the boxed games industry and looks at what the future might hold.. It’s fair to say that things are pretty tough in the world of boxed games – the value of the market has declined by 12.1 per cent …
Read More »Gianluca Vialli’s on the hunt for a publisher
Football legend Gianluca Vialli and developer Geniaware are on the hunt to find a publisher for their first title, Lords of Football. The game challenges players to manage a team. But in a twist on the classic formula, users must deal with off-the-pitch activities and dramas – from training to …
Read More »Games The Shop opens its first store in Ahmedabad
Specialist games retailer Games The Shop has opened its first store in Ahmedabad, taking its total store count across India to ten. The new store is located at Ahmedabad’s Alpha One Mall and is the only Games The Shop store in Gujarat. The new store in Ahmedabad is our initiative …
Read More »3DS accounts for half of Japanese hardware sales
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has claimed that more than 50 per cent of Japanese hardware sales are taken by 3DS. The platform holder’s CEO defended the handheld’s sales performance during a recent meeting with shareholders, according to VG247. "While the Nintendo 3DS has a certain degree of sales momentum in …
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