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One of the most successful Japanese console game developers has predicted that the console market will continue to shrink and in its place will rise a stronger, dominant portable games market. Consoles – PS3, PS4, Xbox 360-2 – the market for those will get smaller, and the main market will …

Angry Birds studio also contemplating its own acquisitions or an IPO

Tokyo judge orders game removed from online store; Dena indicates it will appeal

Ubisoft has lifted the lid on the Assassin’s Creed Revelations: Ottoman Edition, as well as two other brand new games. The Ottoman Edition offers the full game as well as all the DLC that has subsequently been released. This includes The Ancestor’s Character Pack, The Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack and …

In MCV’s weekly rundown of thehottest vacancies and latest personnel news, GAME reorganises its head office team and we look at the best job opportunities. GAME promotes Brennan in head office restructure Two members of GAME Group’s head office staff have taken on new positions. Commercial strategy director Tricia Brennan …

There’s no margin to be made on new releases anymore.” MCV hears this more and more from specialist stores every week. Once upon a time boxed games would be sold very close to their RRP on release day. But this hasn’t been the trend for years. Earlier this month we …

System 3 has secured a new long-term deal with Ferrari. The independent Brit publisher, which has released two Ferrari-branded video games to date, says the deal follows its success in Japan. The last game in the series, Ferrari: The Race Experience, has been a mainstay in the Japanese PSN charts …

But the world-conquering catapult game still has life, investor claims

ABC’s position in the games media industry is under threat. Top press execs have questioned the relevance of the readership tracker following the latest round of results. All games magazines lost readers compared with last year’s figures, some by as much as 25 per cent. But this isn’t reflective of …

We’ve had lots of praise lately for the way MCV has supported the industry during a tough start to the year. And we’re grateful that many have noticed our proactive stance on what the trade’s strengths are. But MCV also has to be honest about its weaknesses, too. What exactly …