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Sports Interactive: Preventing piracy helped us hire 17 new developers
Football Manager 2013 had more staff than ever working on it… because last year’s version was piracy free for two weeks. Football Manager 2012 sold better during its opening week because new security measures meant it took hackers a little longer to crack the game. Developer Sports Interactive and publisher …
Read More »319 GAME stores hosting midnight openings for Black Ops II
Almost every GAME store around the UK will open their doors at midnight for Monday’s launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. The specialist retailer confirmed that 319 of its outlets are hosting special launch events to mark the arrival of Activision’s next blockbuster shooter. A full list of …
Read More »NPD October: NBA 2K13 on top, overall sales in significant decline yet again
The NPD Group has released its October US retail report, showing another major YOY decline in overall sales. The market saw a 25 per cent drop to $755.5m for the period compared to the $1bn made in October 2011. The group is quick to point out that the data only …
Read More »Blackberry 10’s assault on mobile gaming
RIM's Volker Hirsch on Blackberry's ambitious new vision
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New HMV business relations boss, top vacancies
In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, HMV expands with the creation of a new role and we look at the best job opportunities in games. HMV hires business relations manager The retail giant sees Nadia Akhtar join as the firm’s new business relationships manager. …
Read More »It’s Call of Duty vs Skyfall in this week’s MCV
This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it features an analysis of the new Call of Duty and its bid to beat Halo and Skyfall to become the biggest entertainment launch of the year. We also reveal the new-look MCV Awards and speak to EA’s free-to-play boss …
Read More »Diablo III crosses 10m units sold, expansion in the works
A shaky launch and less than stellar critical reception hasn’t stopped Diablo III from selling like any other Blizzard effort. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick revealed that the latest in the action RPG franchise had sold over 10m copies thus far between digital and retail. "Year-to-date, Diablo 3 is the top-selling …
Read More »Is free-to-play the future of gaming or just a cheap fad?
People don’t want to pay for games. That’s what MCV was told repeatedly at E3. And indeed many of this year’s high-growth or most controversial games – World of Tanks, League of Legends, CSR Racing amongst others – were absolutely free. Of course anyone that has followed this market as …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed 3 sells 3.5m during launch week
The latest in the Assassin’s Creed franchise is off to a great start at retail. As part of Ubisoft’s half-year earnings report,CEO Yves Guillemot announced that AC3 has racked up 3.5m units sold in its first week. Guillemot specified that the figure relates to the number of purchases by consumers, …
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