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Boxed game sales continue to be a core driver of the Nordic games market, despite a recent decline at games retail in the region. According to the Association for the Nordic Game Industry (ANGI), in 2014, the value of Nordic retail sales decreased by 18 per cent. More games were …
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Have you got what it takes to win an MCV Award?
What do Warner Bros, PlayStation, Xbox UK, 505 Games and Ubisoft have in common? How about GAME, Indigo Pearl and Twitch? No? Try Team 17’s Debbie Bestwick, Nintendo’s James Honeywell and Games Centre’s Craig Kennedy. They were all winners at this year’s MCV Awards – and you could join this …
Read More »GameStop income dips, at the low end of expectations
Retailer GameStop has reported an annual fall in sales and profit. Global net sales fell 3.6 per cent to $2.016m for the quarter ending October 31st, while profit fell 11.4 per cent to $57m. Currency fluctuations played a part in the numbers, however, and the company’s full year forecasts remain …
Read More »Black Friday: What should you expect?
Black Friday is a US sales event. It signals the end of Thanksgiving and the start of the Christmas sales rush. That is where it stayed for more than a decade, until Amazon decided to run Black Friday promotions across Europe. A few other retailers followed and then, in 2014, …
Read More »International Factfile 2015: Peru
Peru’s games industry has struggled with the steep cost of hardware and software in Latin America, leading to a thriving black market. PricewaterhouseCoopers lists Peru as one of the games industry’s higher-growth, smaller-scale markets. The research firm believes that the country’s games business will experience a compound average growth rate …
Read More »Top ten takeaway tips from Interface
The hugely popular Interface event returned last week, bringing together hundreds of budding indie developers with publishers seeking new titles at St Mary’s Church in London. A number of industry experts and legends also shared their wisdom on-stage during a series of topical talks. MCV looks back at the best …
Read More »ASA won’t take further action over Black Ops III Nuketown marketing mistake
The Advertising Standards Authority has said that it won’t be pursuing further measures against Activision concerning a mistake made in the marketing for Call of Duty III pre-order content. Several fans were left unhappy after early marketing material suggested that the popular Nuketown multiplayer map would be offered to all …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to Star Wars merchandise
That’s no moon: that’s one of the biggest brands in entertainment targeting the games market once again. As Battlefront lands at retail, MCV looks at merchandise with the greatest Force The galactic might of Star Wars has returned to the world of games. Star Wars Battlefront is arguably the biggest …
Read More »Amazon expands one-hour delivery to third UK city
The North-East is the latest UK region to gain Amazon’s Prime Now delivery service. The speedy postage, which claims to offer one-hour delivery on over 15,000 items from the online retailer, previously launched in London and Birmingham earlier this year. Now Amazon users in Newcastle, covering Gateshead, Jesmond and High …
Read More »Payout: Fallout 4 smashes 500,000 units in a week
Bethesda’s Fallout is one of just four IPs to have sold more than half a million units in a week in the UK. Fallout 4 smashed the 500,000 barrier, generating more than 24m in revenue, and that’s without counting digital sales via Steam, PSN or Xbox Live. The data, courtesy …
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