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It’s the post-FIFA blues this week, with unit sales falling 43 per cent to 887,494 and the market value plunging further, down 51 per cent to 26.3m week-on-week. It’s an expected drop, but was perhaps a little steeper than retail would have hoped – it’s a bigger drop than the …
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F2P games green-lit for PlayStation Vita
The thriving free-to-play monetisation model is coming to PlayStation Vita, a Sony executive has said. Chris Norden, a senior developer at SCEA, yesterday met attendees at an industry event in Texas to explain Sony’s policy. "You are free to explore whatever business model you want,” he said during his speaker …
Read More »Forza 4, PES 2012, Ace Combat – where’s cheapest?
There will be plenty of big-name games competing for consumer’s money tomorrow, and some of the UK’s retailers have gone live today with ads for the deals they hope will win them vital marketshare. Tesco is going low on the price of PES 2012, offering the game for 32.71, no …
Read More »Sony backs free-to-play business for Vita
PlayStation developer also assures retail games can launch simultaneously on PSN
Read More »30 Under 30 nominations end tomorrow
You only have a little over 24 hours to make sure your favourite rising stars from this industry is in the running for MCV’s 30 Under 30. Every year, the hugely popular feature highlights the achievements and exertions of the industry’s younger execs working across the UK. It is sponsored …
Read More »Crowd-fund plan could transform triple-A
London group Slightly Mad launches platform to propose, finance and build games on
Read More »Microsoft acquires Twisted Pixel
Splosion Man group 'will help drive innovation across Xbox Live and Kinect'
Read More »Xbox 360 gets 320GB HDD
Microsoft is to release a high-capacity 320GB version of its Xbox 360 hard drive. The SKU will retail for 79.99 in the UK (and $129.99 in the US) and will replace the 250GB unit that currently retails for the same price. It will be compatible with the newer Xbox 360 …
Read More »PES 2012 for 99p: Where’s cheapest?
HMV has lifted the lid on yet more aggressive trade-in deals of two of this week’s biggest releases. The retailer will this Friday be selling Konami’s PES 2012 for just 99p to anyone willing to hand over their copy of EA’s FIFA 12. HMV is also offering Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport …
Read More »Beware of 3DS doom-mongers
Consoles like the 3DS have died so many times in the eyes of analysts and the press they may as well as well be regulars in George Romero movies, writes Nick Gibson
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