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Sales of PS3 hardware have enjoyed a significant spike in the UK following the machine’s price cut. A reliable retail source has told MCV that Sony’s machine saw a sales increase of nearly 65 per cent week-on-week following the decision to cut the RRP of the base model to just …
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THQ announces Saints Row: The Third exclusives
THQ has announced the Australian and New Zealand retailers for its Saints Row: The Third ‘Maximum Pleasure’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ editions. JB HiFi will be carrying the ‘Maximum Pleasure Edition’, which will feature the game, a Professor Genki stuntman key-ring, hyper-replica head and a banner pen, and will retail for …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Warner’s sales vacancy, Aikins joins Sony
In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Warner is looking for a new sales manager, THQ’s John Aikins heads to Sony and GAME hires a Knight. NEW SALES JOB AT WARNERWarner Bros Interactive Entertainment is hiring a new manager of sales analysis for the …
Read More »GAME declassifies exclusive Modern Warfare 3 Intel Pack
Any consumers who pre-order the hotly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from GAME will receive an exclusive Classified Intel Pack. GAME will be handing over these special packs along with 360, PS3 and PC copies of the game when it is released on November 8th. Modern Warfare 3 …
Read More »Kinect lightsaber peripheral spotted
Whatever your feelings about Kinect Star Wars, only the coldest of hearts could fail to be excited about this news. Eurogamer reports that two German retailers have listed a lightsaber peripheral that is Kinect compatible and designed to work with Microsoft’s upcoming Kinect Star Wars. It is said to have …
Read More »HMV handing out One Direction Miis
Retailer HMV has joined forces with X-Factor band One Direction for an iexclusive in-store give-away. As of Monday August 22nd the first band member to be transformed into a Nintendo Mii – Liam – will be distributed as a QR code on the One Direction Facebook and Twitter streams. Then …
Read More »Console microtransactions: The promise and the problems
Living room game platforms house the industry's most concentrated and valuable collection of gamers, says Nick Gibson
Read More »INTERVIEW: Andrew Wilson, EA Sports
The new EA Sports president has an ambitious plan to have all the label’s games run as connected cross-platform experiences. But, he tells Michael French, that means some tough decisions for retailers, publishers and console manufacturers During your Develop conference keynote last month you said customers had lost interest in …
Read More »Xenoblade suffers stock shortages
The long-awaited cult JPRG Xenoblade Chronicles has finally arrived in the UK today, but consumers might not be able to get their hands on it just yet. Online retailer ShopTo.net has confirmed to MCV that the game is suffering from stock shortages after a surge of last-minute demand has exceeded …
Read More »Skylanders takes Activison to ‘unexpected’ territory
Forget video games, Activision is well on its way to establishing a foothold in the toy sector. The firm is talking to retailers and media it has never spoken to before in a bid to ensure Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is a hit. The game is almost a reboot for the …
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