Entertainment retailer Zavvi is offering pre-order cards for highly anticipated Rockstar title Grand Theft Auto IV, ensuring customers receive a copy on the day of release. The retailer offered a similar scheme for the release of Halo 3 last year. These highly collectable cards will add value to our customer’s …

Retail superpower Tesco is planning yet more growth in the video games market with heavy investment in online and in-store operations throughout 2008. And in a move likely to enrage indies, it has vowed to continue selling cut-price games. After a flourishing year in 2007, which saw Tesco smash sales …

HP extended its lead in global PC shipments in the fourth quarter, despite moves by Dell to increase its retail presence during the period. To read the story in full, head over to MCV sister site PC Retail.

Family-friendly publisher The Game Factory is gearing up for its biggest ever year of releases, with 12 titles set to hit retail in 2008. First up are DS titles Build-A-Bear Workshop and Bratz Ponyz 2, due in March and summer respectively. And more exciting” product signings and new IP will …

Infinity Ward, developer of Call of Duty 4, has cited piracy as the main reason for the decline in PC gaming. Infinity Ward’s community relations manager expressed his amazement in a blog entitled They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Any More. To read the story in full, head …

There are 12 weeks until the trade event of the year. The 2008 MCV Industry Excellence Awards will take place on Thursday April 10th. By popular demand, they will once again be held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London – with 17 awards up for grabs. MCV online and in …

Entertainment retail giant HMV has released a trading update for the five weeks ended January 5th 2008, which show considerable progress in the company’s three-year turnarond plan. Group total were sales up 9.9 per cent, and like-for-like growth stood at 9.4 per cent. HMV UK and Ireland total were sales …

Game developer Goichi Suda, the man behind GameCube and PS2 cult classic Killer 7 and upcoming Wii curiosity No More Heroes, has said that Nintendo are the only company making any money out of the Wii. Upon its release in Japan, No More Heroes generated quite a lot of attention …

Come to a sprawling Moscow and step back in time. To a land where independent games retailers are still the most powerful High Street force. Where everyone in the games business is still under 40, and barely 30. Even the bosses. And to a land where computer games rule. That’s …

Woolworths has forecast a return to profitibiliuty for its High Street stores in 2008 – after the High Street chain suffered a 3.2 per cent drop in like-for-like sales for the 49 weeks to January 12th. The firm blamed ‘fierce discounting’ across the electrical products sector for the dip – …