Another week, another Nintendo hardware drought – but retailers aren’t complaining, describing current demand for Wii and DS as ‘like nothing we’ve ever seen before.’ As parents continue to buy up any hardware possible ahead of Christmas, retail has seen both Wii and DS consoles sell out almost as quickly …

And according to the many, many retailers surveyed by our friends at Channel Games , it has been Microsoft and Nintendo keeping things ticking over nicely. While once again supermarkets and their pesky margin-slashing ways have proved to be this year’s pantomime villain, there’s plenty to be positive about. We’ve …

After a storming year of success, Microsoft took the lion’s share of the praise in the 2007 MCV Retail Survey, with Nintendo also attracting a great deal of commendation from video game stores all across the country. The star-studded release of Halo 3 – which saw high calibre celebrity endorsement …

Forget the BAFTA’s, forget the Golden Joysticks – this is where the wheat gets well and truly separated from the chaff as retail casts its vote on the best performing companies in the video games trade this year. Microsoft took a big chunk of the praise, winning ‘highlight of the …

Brain Training once again helps Nintendo top our developer chart

LEADING CASUAL games specialist Popcap is to bring its hit titles to the High Street, having signed a significant new agreement with UK value specialist Focus Multimedia. PopCap enters the retail market with a range of well-known titles including Bejeweled 2, Chuzzle and Zuma, which are set to hit shelves …

There has been mixed reaction to the deal by UK retail, with some stores relishing the prospect of a publishing entity with the firepower to take on EA, while others are wary of what further consolidation means for the business. Many from the front line of the industry are anticipating …

Comet’s Debbie O’Neill and Gameseek.co.uk’s Stephen Staley are the latest new additions to MCV’s prestigious Retail Advisory Board – an elite group of the industry’s top games buyers. They join Retail Advisory Board luminaries such as GAME’s Lisa Morgan, Gamestation’s Martyn Gibbs, Sainsbury’s Brian Foote, Play.com’s Gian Luzio and Woolworths’ …

RETAIL Overview: Retail is (and will remain for the foreseeable future) the dominant sales and distribution channel for games. The mechanisms behind retail – manufacturing, infrastructure, POS, inventory, sale or return agreements – are the foundations of the industry’s most common commercial models, whose rigidity is reflected in common commercial …

Despite digital distribution's rise, retail still accounts for 82% of global market