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More than 384 million toys were sold during 2011, with the total market up three per cent year-on-year to 2.96 billion. The editor of MCV’s sister publication ToyNews, Samantha Loveday, gives us an overview of the business… IS THE toy industry really recession proof?” is a question I’ve been asked …
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Mass Effect 3 sales reinforce Riccitiello’s chilling GAME warning
Today’s success of Mass Effect 3 in the UK charts may be great news for the industry, but it’s a bad sign for troubled retailer GAME. Had the game failed to hit expectations, perhaps missed No.1 or fallen below the week one sales number of its predecessor, EA would this …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Mass Effect 3 shatters series records
EA’s Mass Effect 3 has made a strong debut at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It amassed more sales that 2012’s four previous No.1’s – SSX, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, UFC Undisputed 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It also smashed the combined …
Read More »GAME stock plummets below 1p
It’s a sorry Monday morning for beleaguered retailer GAME today with stock in the company dropping to an all-time low. Having closed on Friday evening at an already rock-bottom 3.51p per share, GAME’s stock opened Monday morning on a bewilderingly low 1.75p. In the minutes that followed it fell as …
Read More »CD Projekt Red ditching DRM
CD Projekt Red, developer of the hit RPG series The Witcher, has revealed the company will no longer rely on DRM for any of their future titles. Speaking at GDC last week in San Francisco, CEOMarcin Iwinski stated that the studio wouldn’t go the route again because it both complicates …
Read More »Report – GAME puts itself up for sale
GAME has hired Rothschild to find a buyer for the beleaguered retailer, The Sunday Times reports. The paper writes that GAME has to pay landlords in two weeks. Failure to pay rents could push the firm into administration jeopardising thousands of jobs. As widely reported, GameStop is interested in the …
Read More »D-Day looms for GAME
MCV has learnt that senior members of the GAME management teams have been told to brace for the possibility of administration. Senior staff were told at a meeting with CEO Ian Shepherd earlier this week that the chain has approximately two weeks to turn its fortunes around. However, hope remains …
Read More »GDC: CD Projekt: ‘DRM does not protect your game’
Witcher 2 'cracked within two hours of release' despite using SecuROM, says Marcin Iwinski
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market drops to £12.1m
The steady drop in market value and unit sales continued last week, with UK games retail shifting nine per cent fewer games week-on-week. EA held the lion’s share of the market last week with nine games in the Top 40. The latest release in its long-running SSX snowboarding franchise finally …
Read More »Disc-less Next Xbox – your questions answered
The news this morning that the Next Xbox will not feature a disc drive has lead to a whirlwind of debate and disagreement on Twitter. MCV does not claim to have all the answers. We know the Next Xbox will be out in 2013. We know it won’t have a …
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