Intent Media will launch a trade site and daily email for the exploding Nordic games community this spring. Covering Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, MCV Nordic will arrive in mid-March with local editors and in partnership with local trade organisations.It will cover all aspects of the industry, from publishing, …

Next generation system months away from release across key territories

Nordic Games has won a publishing deal for Remedy Entertainment’s critically acclaimed Alan Wake. The company will bring the boxed PC version of the title to UK retail this March, which has been tweaked and redeveloped specifically for the platform.The PC SKU will include both DLC episodes – The Signal …

Reports this morning – which it must be said remain totally unsubstantiated – claim that the Next Xbox could incorporate a new technology that blocks the use of pre-owned games on the console. The gravity of this news, if true, would have industry-wide ramifications. The fallout for retail would be …

UK indie ShopTo.net has hired SEO fire in a bid to double its online revenue. The specialist search and social marketing firm is run by retail veteran Gian Luzio. This year is key to ShopTo.net’s growth as both Microsoft and Sony look to announce the next generation of games consoles,”?said …

Here at MCVuk.com we spend all day reading the internet. Hundreds of sites. Millions of words. But if we were to recommend, say, five stories to read, what would they be? Funny you should ask that, because they would be these: Interview: GAME and the state of retail (Spong) Much …

Develop examines the inner workings of Ubisoft's most creatively daring studio in Montpellier

The successor to the Xbox 360 will be six times as powerful as the current machine, fresh reports suggest. IGN claims to have word from sources close to the project” that its GPU architecture will be based on the existing Radeon HD 6670 card. That card, which was launched in …

Market statistics show the UK’s toy industry generated sales worth a total of 2.96 billion in 2011. The figures were released by research firm the NPD Group at this morning’s Toy Fair, and also showed a three per cent year-on-year increase in the industry’s value. By contrast, the UK’s video …

GameStop says the closure of its Northern Ireland stores is merely part of its already announced plan to exit the UK brick and mortar market. GameStop Group’s commercial director Michael Finucane, who oversees the business in the UK and Ireland, this morning told MCV that shutting three stores this week …