Online games retailer Nextworld doesn’t think we’re going to be around long enough to see Christmas, so it’s instead offering a sitewide ‘End of the World’sale. From now until 21st December, all products at Nextworld are being discounted anywhere from 6.66% to 15%. Simply use the EOW2112 promo code at …

HMV has warned it will probably breach its lender covenants in January. The firm reported a 36.1m loss for the 26 weeks ending October 27th. But says it is having ‘constructive discussions’ with its banks. This isn’t as severe as last year’s loss of 50.1m, and the firm says it …

Some gaming enthusiasts find buying games on the High Street safer than via online, says Ubisoft. The firm’s free-to-play publishing director Thomas Paincon said that some consumers trust the High Street over online services and free-to-play games. And that’s why the firm is launching a boxed version of digital F2P …

Music labels and other entertainment suppliers are backing HMV with more than 40m of funding in the run-up to Christmas. That’s according toThe Telegraph, which reports that the financial boost is in addition to other measures secured last year between HMV and its suppliers in order to keep th retailer …

MMO avoids free-to-play and adopts traditional pay-up-front model

Ubisoft says its three games in the Chart-Track All-Formats Top Five is a company record. Far Cry 3 (No.2), Just Dance 4 (No.4) and Assassin’s Creed III (No.5) has resulted in a major sales week for the publisher in the UK, as the company looks to build on its No.2 …

Social platform for games open to third-party developers, says Cevat Yerli

A movie based on the Angry Birds franchise has been rumoured for a while, but Rovio has now finally made it official. The animated flick will hit cinemas in 2016, and will be produced by John Cohen, who also produced Despicable Me. Former Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel, who stepped …

Influential retail exec Rob Salter is leaving Tesco on January 1st, 2013, MCV can reveal. He has worked as the firm’s category director for media and entertainment for four and a half years, overseeing the supermarket chain’s music, movies and video games offer. Tesco has yet to announce who his …

At the recent Video Game Awards, Naughty Dog showed of a new trailer for The Last of Us, which ended with a long-awaited announcement of the game’s release date. The new trailer showed new characters, environments and gameplay elements such as horse-back riding, and teased a few plot details as …