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This week, we talk to Microsoft about Xbox Game Pass, investigate why publishers are so reluctant to discuss the new upcoming service and ask SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen and IHS Markit’s Piers Harding-Rolls for their analysis on the topic. In this week’s issue, we also discuss Koei Tecmo’s strategy with …
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GameStop: Switch could eclipse the Wii
The senior director of merchandising at retailer GameSpot has predicted an extremely bright future for Nintendo Switch. The console remains hard to find on Hight Streets on both sides of the Atlantic, and now Eric Bright has told GameRant that he thinks it could outpace Nintendo’s most successful ever home …
Read More »Digital spending soars while physical shrinks over 50% in ten years
Consumer spending in games has increased 72 per cent between 2007 and 2016, but physical spending has fallen by 54.9 per cent during the same period, according to a new report from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Boxed games are now worth less than half their value in 2007, totalling …
Read More »The PS3 is nearing its end as Japanese production stops
Sony is on the verge of halting PS3 production in Japan. Gematsu reports that the Japanese product page for the 500GB charcoal black PS3 reveals that manufacturing of the device will come to an end soon”. As the only PS3 currently in production for the region, that ultimately means the …
Read More »GAME to become official games partner of BAFTA
GAME has announced it’s to become an official games partner of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The partnership will see GAME support BAFTA’s upcoming Games Awards evening, which is due to be held on April 6th at Tobacco Dock during the London Games Festival, as well as …
Read More »Analysis: the driving forces behind the UK’s 4.33bn games industry
Read the headlines at the end of 2016, MCV’s included, and you might think the games industry was having a tough time of it. A number of high-profile releases struggled at retail and then Black Friday swept in and prices tumbled just weeks after release. It didn’t look pretty, but …
Read More »Apple found guilty of Russian iPhone price fixing
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has found Apple guilty of fixing the price of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 in the country. Russia first opened investigations into the issue last autumn, at which time Apple denied the accusations and insisted that retailers were solely responsible for setting the price of …
Read More »BAME in Games: ‘Diversity makes creative and business sense’
Ahead of the formal launch of BAME in Games later this year, MCV talks to its first chair Kish Hirani about ethnic diversity in the games industry and what we can expect from the new advocacy group. You were appointed the first chair of BAME in Games last year – …
Read More »Starbreeze to publish System Shock 3
Swedish publisher and distributor Starbreeze has signed an agreement with Otherside Entertainment to publish System Shock 3 on PC and other platforms. Starbreeze will pour $12m into the title, and it says it will be able to recoup 120 per cent of its full investment including marketing costs. Under the …
Read More »Soedesco announces new action RPG IP AereA to be published this summer
Soedesco has announced that its second new original IP will be published on PS4, Xbox One and PC later this year. Entitled AereA, the music-themed action RPG is being developed by the Netherlands-based Triangle Studios and it’s also the first game in the planned AereA series. The title will be …
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