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Zavvi Entertainment Group, headed up by existing Virgin Megastores MD Simon Douglas and finance director Steve Peckham, will operate all of the existing 125 UK and Irish stores and its online operation. Zavvi will continue to be supplied by EUK, the company’s primary supplier. All UK stores will be re-branded …
Read More »New charts deal for MCV print and online
The deal covers weekly and monthly UK games data compiled by ChartTrack on behalf of ELSPA. The new arrangements mean that MCV has secured publishing rights for the Top 40 weekly all formats chart across both its online and print portfolio. MCV will also carry the Top 10 weekly single …
Read More »Middleware firm Havok snapped up by Intel
Develop reports that Havok is to be acquired by Intel for an undisclosed sum. The middleware company’s new owner said the move will let developers working in games and digital animation "take advantage of Intel’s innovation and technology leadership". Havok’s tools, which cover Physics, Animation and character-focused Behavior modules, are …
Read More »Emergent’s Behaviour
Gamebryo vendor Emergent is riding a wave of expansion and announcements, recently unveiling a new online games platform and increased support for Wii in its game engine. We caught up with CEO Geoffery Selzer and new president Scott Johnson to find out more about the company's plansâ?¦
Read More »Intel buys Havok
Surprise acquisition sees award-winning tools firm become subsidiary of computing giant
Read More »ITV boss hits back at Riccitiello comments
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has hit out at video games for existing in a ‘moral vacuum’ compared to television drama. According to Broadcast magazine, Grade said that TV could take the moral high ground over games because it enjoyed the ‘framework of a dramatic narrative’. Grade was responding directly …
Read More »Evolving Gem reveals new identity
Having continued to evolve throughout its 23-year history, Gem’s new logo is an indication that the ambitious company has raised its game once again, says managing director Chris Peacock. The logo is only an indicator of the changes that are taking place,” he told MCV. It was important that we …
Read More »Game Connection unveils Level Up scheme
Program designed to help new studios and service firms
Read More »Riccitiello tells TV industry: Youre just as violent as games
Chief executive of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello has told some of the most powerful luminaries in television that games are no more violent a media than TV programmes. Speaking in a presentation to the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention, Riccitiello said video games were ‘unfairly demonised’ in the press for …
Read More »Eyetronics expands to Canada
3D scanning firm to address growing Canadian development market
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