MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
No new entries in boxed Top 40 for second week in a row
Read More »Far Cry 5 leads the pack in a sluggish week for UK retail
Search Results for: retail
Owlboy swooping into retail on PS4 and Switch on May 29th
This marks Soedesco’s first physical Switch release, with plenty more to come
Read More »Red Hook Studios to partner with Merge Games to bring Darkest Dungeon to retail
Due in March 2018, Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition will include the base game and its two expansions.
Read More »Call of Duty WW2 sales analysis: new title storms UK retail
What a difference a year makes. Call of Duty WW2 has braved the artillery fire of franchise fatigue. Stormed the machine gun nests of digital shift and put a Churchill-like two fingers up to the loot crate furore. Some had written off the franchise after last year’s less-than-stellar sci-fi outing, …
Read More »Valve’s Orange Box paved the way for today’s physical indie retail space
When Valve launched Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two as The Orange Box bundle back in 2007, it had a transformative effect on the games retail space of its day. That’s according to Valve’s Robin Walker, who recently spoke to PC Gamer about the legacy of the game bundle …
Read More »Humble Bundle charity games retailer acquired by IGN
CEO Jeffery Rosen welcomes the move saying "as far as we’ve come, we know we are just getting started"
Read More »Xbox One X stock a fraction of original Xbox One say some retailers
Updated with comment from Exertis at 13.54 on 3/10/17. Microsoft’s upcoming console is looking to be in extremely short supply, based on independent retailers that MCV has spoken with. One retailer told us that its allocation for the new console was just five units, way short of the hundred units …
Read More »FIFA 18 powers into retail – but Switch only 1% of sales
Q4 has now officially launched with the release of FIFA’s new entry, which once again debuted at No.1 to impressive sales. Two days on shelves were enough for EA’s FIFA 18 to take the top spot by a wide margin. Sales may be down 25 per cent compared to Week …
Read More »Destiny 2 is 2017’s biggest launch – but shifts less than half of its predecessor at Week One retail
Destiny 2 has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, making it the biggest launch of the year so far. However, sales were 58 per cent down on the original title from 2014, suggesting that more consumers may have shifted to digital purchases – especially considering that …
Read More »Resilient retail – UK retailers discuss stock shortages, Switch and Brexit
This year has already brought a few shocks and surprises to retail. The first few months of 2017 had its usual new entries in best-selling franchises such as Resident Evil 7 and Mass Effect Andromeda, some big new IP releases including Horizon Zero Dawn, and, of course, there’s Crash Bandicoot …
Read More »