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The Golden Joysticks is set to become the jewel in the crown of this year’s London Games Festival as MCV can reveal that the Future-organised event is the official awards partner for 2008’s celebration of gaming culture. Publisher Future is calling on the industry to make this year’s event the …

Video games saved British retail’s blushes in April – with High Street sales falling by less than expected thanks to a consumer ‘rush’ to buy interactive entertainment. According to The Office for National Statistics, overall retail sales volumes fell for the second straight month in April, down 0.2 per cent …

Around 50 million games were sold for Nintendo’s Wii during its first 18 months on the market, according to the platform holder. The figure would set a new record for software sales, beating the previous record holder, PS2, into second – and, according to Nintendo, doesn’t include copies of Wii …

Square Enix’s Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen will hit Europe and other PAL territories in September – with a firm release date for the US of September 16th. The publisher has also announced the other two games in the ‘Zenithia Trilogy’ – Dragon Quest V: Hand of the …

Game could be done at Turn 10, says Microsoft Game Studios boss

Nintendo has claimed that the typical Wii gamer is as far removed from ‘casual’ as it gets – an adult male with an income of $50,000 or more a year. At the Electronic Gaming Summit in Napa, California, Nintendo of America’s executive VP of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway told …

Firm presented Q engine at DevStation Mumbai; has signed first licensee for Indian market

Growing consumer games portal Videogamer.com, formerly known as Pro-G, has launched a brand new online games show – which the site says is aimed to appeal specifically to the British sense of humour. The first episode of The Videogamer.com Show features reviews of current chart-topper Grand Theft Auto IV, Iron …

Our latest technology field overview tackles the thorny online space

MCV is this week rolling out the UK games industry’s first ever dedicated online retail forum and High Street news and information resource. The new Retail Biz section of MCVUK.com is now live and offers a trade-only forum where retailers and other interested members of the games industry can talk …