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 …

Monday December 3rd 2012 was officially the busiest ever online shopping day in the UK. Retail Gazette reports that a total of 112m visits to retail websites were made on the day – a year-on-year increase of 32 per cent and the biggest ever single day number. eBay was the …

Stranger things have happened. We can’t think of many, but we’re sure they have. In what can only be described as the epitome of diversification, Game Retail Ltd has added a hotel suite to its empire of specialist video game stores. That’s right, a hotel suite. Called the GAME Pad …

In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, GAME expands its social media team and we look at the best job opportunities. GAME HIRES TING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA The retailer has hired Craig Ting as community manager. He will be responsible for developing and nurturing GAME’s …

GREE is keen to conquer the UK, the leading mobile and social games firm told MCV. The Japanese publisher opened a UK studio in London earlier this year. It is working on five titles, including a Moshi Monsters game, which it hopes will help it win over UK gamers. The …

Most major games arrive in the UK with a bang: often a star-studded launch party, some form of high-profile PR stunt and a slew of midnight openings. But while such launches are often a much more muted affair in other territories, there are some publishers trying to bring the spectacle …