As the ESC held its successful Golf and Spa Day (raising over 20,000 in the process), a new charity, GamesAid, was announced. GamesAid is setting out to offer a new level of choice for participants at all levels and is happy to live alongside any ‘official’ industry charity. Its arrival …

HMV has spoken of its respect for specialist GAME in a new interview with MCV. The firm’s commercial manager for games Jonathan Hayes said that both HMV and GAME were united in offering something that kept consumers away from online retailers – such as Play and Amazon – and supermarkets. …

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association has instructed its members to ignore any request from the BBFC to change the current age ratings process. The UK industry representative has requested that leading publishers hold fire on implementing any changes to classification of their games until the Government has officially …

GameStop has revealed plans to grow its global operation by 25 per cent, following a rise of 151.4 per cent in net profit in its first quarter. Net profits stood at $62.1 million for the three months ended May 3rd, as compared to net earnings of $24.7 million for the …

Team Ninja boss Tomonubu Itagaki has boasted that Ninja Gaiden II couldn’t have been made by any other studio in the world, but has ruled himself out of further sequels. Brushing aside the suggestion that Japanese developers are falling behind Western studios, Itagaki told MCV: For better or worse there …

We’ve recently had a huge week for the industry with the release of Wii Fit and GTA IV. Has it been the biggest week in gaming history? It’s certainly helped give us a huge spike in sales during what are normally the quieter summer months. I can’t say that it’s …

The British Board Of Film Classification is to introduce age ratings for downloadable video games in the UK – and ‘police’ online retailers to ensure they are not selling adult titles to youngsters. The body this morning confirmed that it is to launch BBFC.online – a classification system for both …

This year has been a record breaker in terms of revenues – what do you feel were the key drivers for this success? Our performance was driven by strong market conditions as well as the continued success of our franchise portfolio. You need great products to be successful and we …

Among the many companies in the games space eyeing expansion at the moment is Koch Media – and it may surprise you to learn exactly how ambitious its plans are. While most consider Koch to be simply a software distributor, it is busily setting about overturning that perception to become, …

After announcing that it is set to bring US and electronics retail behemoth Best Buy to the UK , The Carphone Warehouse has told MCV that existing European retail outlets are failing their customers. Earlier this month, the firm announced that it had invested 1.1 billion in Best Buy – …