Retail

It’s a sign of the time – distributor Interactive Ideas is withdrawing from retail product distribution. However, rather than focus on the decline in traditional retail sectors the company has instead chose to focus on the growth it sees in enterprise software – that is, software and IT used by …

Valve has finally admitted the company’s plan to enter the hardware market. A job listing spotted by The Verge for an ‘industrial designer’ position on Valve’s website clearly reveals the firm’s intentions. Valve is traditionally a software company. Open platforms like the PC and Mac are important to us, as …

INTERVIEW: MCV talks to EA COO Peter Moore about a market in transition, the future of discs and his costly Bejeweled habit… Thanks to gruelling media training, most senior games industry execs have been groomed to never say anything off message. Every comment, for most publishers, is on-brand with little …

NCsoft has claimed a surprising victory in the UK charts with new MMO release Guild Wars 2 debuting at top spot. It’s the second largest launch ever in the UK for a non-World of Warcraft MMO, bettered only by EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s also the first PC …

FIFA 13 is less than a month away and Game4u is giving MCV India readers who’ve already preordered the game the opportunity to get the game for free. Here’s how it works. Simply preorder FIFA 13 at Game4u.com on the platform of your choice. Once you’ve done that, input your …

A retail listing for a 3DS version of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask has appeared – and quickly disappeared – from GAME’s website. It was spotted by NintendoLife, which claims the listing also briefly featured on the Gamestation site. Majora’s Mask is a sequel to the famed Ocarina of …

2K Games’ indie-only Borderlands 2 Top Trumps promotion has proved a big hit on the UK High Street. The video games themed card game is limited to 5,000 copies and will never be released at retail. It will be made available to those who pre-order the game through retailers who …

Having decided that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover was too much to compete with on Google, Peter Molyneux has revealed a new name for his debut solo project. And it’s somewhat of a mouthful, although certainly fitting – Curiosity: What’s In the Cube? Although Molyneux claims that his preference was something …

The PC version of From Software’s Dark Souls is out now in India, the game’s Indian distributor has announced. This is the first of publisher Namco Bandai’s games to be released in India on PC in a while. While The Witcher 2 received a delayed release in India on PC, …

Just what is going wrong amongst UK games retailers? A number of senior trade execs have told MCV the market slump has left them perplexed – compounded by a seeming reluctance from some corners of retail to do anything about it. In the last few week’s MCV has reported on …