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Time to dust off your finery and get your dancing shoes ready. The MCV Awards are returning for 2017 to recognise the best and brightest the UK games industry has to offer. The UK games market’s most prestigious awards show will return on Thursday, March 9th at The Brewery in …
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UK physical games market down 50% year-on-year
Last week, the UK boxed games market was down by more than 50 per cent year-on-year. According to GfK figures, the sales period for the week ending Saturday, November 12th 2016 saw 651,637 games sold, a 52 per cent dip when compared with the week ending Saturday, November 14th 2015. …
Read More »International Factfile 2016: Peru
Peru is the 52th biggest games market in the world, data firm Newzoo reports, and generating an estimated $103m (83m) in revenue for 2016. PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the market should continue to grow at a seven per cent rate until 2018. The firm has labelled the country’s industry as a …
Read More »NES Classic Mini sold 263k units in first four days in Japan
Nintendo’s new NES Classic Mini has hit shelves in Japan and has had a rather good start to its life. According to data provided to MCV by Famitsu, the hardware sold 262,961 units during its first four days on shelves. The machine launched in the region on November 10th; the …
Read More »Report points to £199.99 and £249.99 Nintendo Switch launch price
The Nintendo Switch will be priced at 199.99 for the entry-level SKU in the UK, it has been claimed. Lets Play Video Games claims to have word from two sources that retailer GAME has been told that it should expect to sell the new console for 199.99 when it launches …
Read More »The NES Classic Mini is in short supply
It’s not just the PS4 Pro that has had a storming week on the UK High Street. Supplies of Nintendo’s NES Classic Mini retro console seem to have run dry, with most major retailers seemingly out of stock of the 50 device. As a result, aftermarket prices have rocketed. Prices …
Read More »Dishonored 2 falls short of original as Call of Duty falls sharply
Activision’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare remains the UK No.1, despite suffering a steeper drop in sales than its genre rivals. Week two sales of the Infinity Ward game were down 55 per cent. That’s significantly more than the 39 per cent and 41 per cent drop off seen with …
Read More »Razer’s eSports focused PS4 pad costs £150 and is a GAME exclusive
A few weeks back eSports fans who play on the PS4 got excited when both Razer and Nacon announced new officially licensed controllers for the console that are design for pro players. Now more information on Razer’s offering has been revealed and it may put some people off. The Razer …
Read More »GAME is opening WHSmith concessions
Some branches of WHSmith will soon play host to a number of new GAME concession stores. WHSmith used to be a player in the games market but pulled out during the PS3 and Xbox 360 era. However, with GAME’s store count now significantly less than it once was, and other …
Read More »Nintendo confirms that Wii U production IS ending
Having denied it just days ago, Nintendo has now conceded that the end has come for Wii U. Just last week a report claimed that production was due to end last Friday (November 4th). Nintendo at the time denied this, but has now confirmed that yes, manufacturing is coming to …
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