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Mexico now boasts the second-biggest games sector in the Latin American region, behind Brazil. According to a report from Newzoo and GlobalCollect, the country’s games market generated an estimated $1.01 billion in revenue during 2014. This total comes despite Newzoo’s 2013 Global Games Market Report estimation that just four per …
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Minecraft fan fiction is HMV best-seller
HMV has started selling a range of Minecraft fan fiction. The Battle for the Nether and Invasion of the Overworld from the Gameknight999 Adventureseries by Mark Cheverton were first stocked by the retailer in October after they were published in September. And they were amongst the Minecraft products that helped …
Read More »Chinese telco giant Snail Games to launch new OBox console in UK next year
Watch out Microsoft and Sony, one of China’s biggest games companies will launch its first console in Europe in early 2016. Snail Games is China’s fifth largest mobile phone service provider and the firm behind hit MMO Age of Wushu, which attracts over 5.5m monthly players. Now, the company is …
Read More »Learn how to become an eSports Pro in this week’s issue of MCV
This week’s issue of MCV is an eSports special, featuring interviews and insight from around that sector of the industry. Riot Game’s EU eSports boss Jason Yeh tells us how League of Legends became the world’s top eSports game and how it plans on staying there. Also Alex ‘Xpecial’ Chu …
Read More »Jagex is now accepting Bitcoin
Online games company Jagex is now accepting payment with cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The firm is partnering up with online payment services BitPay and Ayden to allow customers to pay with Bitcoin. RuneScape fans will be able to purchase both memberships and microstransactions with the digital currency. Jagex is the latest company …
Read More »GTA V ships 45 million units
Nearly ten million PS4 and Xbox One copies sold-in to retail
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Debbie Bestwick
The co-founder of Team 17 began her career in retail, working her way up to store promotional manager for an indie video games chain, where she opened over 100 concessions for the Burton Group. Today, she’s best know for her work for Team 17, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this …
Read More »Raspberry Pi sells 4.5m units, approaching UK sales record
Raspberry Pi is positioned to become the bestselling UK-made computer of all time, according to a new BBC report. Ahead of Raspberry Pi 2’s launch later this month, founder Ebon Upton tells BBC that lifetime sales for Raspberry Pi have reached 4.5m – just 500,000 shy of overtaking the ZX …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Anne Lepissier
Lepissier is a sales veteran having spent 17-years at various consumer electronics giants including LG, Canon and now Microsoft. She is a graduate of the International Business School of Paris, the Manhattan Institute of Management in New York and the International Management University of Asia, Tokyo, and has worked in …
Read More »eSports Pro is live – here’s how to get involved
Later today the very first eSports Pro newsletter is published by MCV. eSports Pro is the first dedicated B2B source for pro-gaming, and is part of a bigger commitment to this important part of games culture and business by MCV. There are plenty of ways MCV readers and the global …
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