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GameSeek to relaunch website as the ‘best e-commerce game store on Earth’

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Online retailer Gameseek is to relaunch its website to create what CEO and managing director Stephen Staley calls "the best e-commerce game store on Earth." The new, responsive website will be built from the ground up in HTML 5, Staley told MCV, with new features being added over time. Chief …

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Take-Two: ‘Our business has been transformed’ by digital

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The news of Red Dead Redemption 2’s delay until spring 2018 may have come as something of a disappointment this morning, but Take-Two’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 results show the publisher couldn’t be in better shape to weather the storm. A huge growth in digital sales has been …

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Gfinity’s Martin Wyatt on grassroots esports & why its Elite series is a “watershed moment” for UK esports

gfinity elite series 840 jpg Gfinity’s Martin Wyatt on grassroots esports & why its Elite series is a “watershed moment” for UK esports

Esports outfit Gfinity have recently named a date for their long-awaited Gfinity Elite Series event, after a series of delays marred the event. This led to some critics of the company to speculate about the status of the event after Gfinity didn’t come forwards with a new date. Regardless, looking …

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GAME launches premium loyalty scheme

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Retailer GAME is hoping to convince consumers to spend 36 per year to sign up to a new customer loyalty scheme. Current GAME Reward Card users net two per cent back on purchases and one per cent on trade-ins. GAME Elite members will instead get ten per cent back on …

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Opinion: Eyes on the prize

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CEO of publisher Kiss, Darryl Still, gives us his thoughts on how to make your game attractive in a crowded PC marketplace

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe approaches 400k units in Japan with third week at No.1

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe enjoyed its third week at No.1 in the Japanese software charts last week, after selling another 30,745 units, according to the latest data from Famitsu. This takes its cumulative total to just shy of 400,000 units, (397,287, to be exact), after a fall of 64 per …

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Will Ubisoft bring its ‘live’ success to Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry 5 in 2017?

Ubisoft caused quite a stir last year when it told MCV its Week One sales were "important" but "not critical" to the company’s ongoing success. Indeed, after a disappointing month at retail during November, the comments of its VP of live operations Anne Blondel couldn’t have been timelier. After all, …

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Bandai Namco and Numskull partner for Tekken merchandise range

1 tekken 350jpg Bandai Namco and Numskull partner for Tekken merchandise range

Apparel designer Numskull has just signed a partnership with Bandai Namco to launch a new range of Tekken retro merchandise. Available for retailers to order starting today, the range (see pictures below) includes T-shirts, a hoody, mugs, a snapback, key chains, a wallet and even socks, with prices ranging from …

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Turtle Beach: ‘Audio will become an even bigger part of the gaming experience’

1 turtle beach pic for the interview 350jpg Turtle Beach: 'Audio will become an even bigger part of the gaming experience'

Turtle Beach received its first MCV Award for best peripherals and accessories in 2012 and went on to win every year from 2014. During our annual retail survey last December, Turtle Beach was also named the No.1 peripherals manufacturer by retailers – for the third consecutive year. We catch up …

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MCV’s guide to the top peripherals firms and products

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As retailers are constantly on the hunt for new products to diversify their offering, we round up the top peripherals firms in the industry. Hori Lime Distribution LucidSound Orb PDP Prif Razer Snakebyte Turtle Beach Venom HORI Location: London, UK Key contact (pictured below): UK accounts manager Alex Sturgess, 020 3735 8125 …

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