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The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA) has announced its support for MCV Pacific’s launch in Australia and New Zealand welcoming the focus on local trade news and information. Ron Curry, CEO of the iGEA said: We couldn’t be happier to see MCV begin to report on local, trade focused …
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AFA Interactive reveals strong sales of Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Sniper: Ghost Warrior has been a quiet achiever in Australia / New Zealand, selling almost 70’000 units in the territory so far becoming AFA Interactive’s biggest title for 2011 so far. Robert Allford, managing director of AFA, says: Sniper: Ghost Warrior has been an outstanding success for us. We feel …
Read More »EA in $750m swoop for PopCap
EA has moved to acquire social and casual games specialist PopCap for a deal that could eventually be worth $1.3bn. The publisher has bought the firm – best known for hit casual titles Plants vs Zombies, Peggle,Bejeweled and Zuma – for $650m in cash plus $100m in stock. PopCap’s owners …
Read More »HMV appoints new commercial director
HMV has recruited Michael Neil as its new commercial director. Neil was the recent commercial director at Waterstone’s, which HMV sold to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for 53m. Neil replaced Gary Warren, who has decided to leave the retailer to pursue new interest. Warren has worked for the entertainment firm …
Read More »Shane Kim joins GameStop board
Shane Kim, one of the key executives behind Microsoft’s Xbox push, has been appointed to the board of directors at global games retailer GameStop. Kim retired from Microsoft in 2009 when he was at the time serving as the corporate VP of strategy and business development at the Interactive Entertainment …
Read More »Asda predicts 2013 market turnaround
UK games retail can expect another 18 months of decline before things start growing again,says Asda. The firm was talking following last month’s E3 conference, with games chief Andrew Thompson describing the games on show as ‘unbelievable. ‘The quality is so high now,” Thompson told MCV. You don’t really see …
Read More »KontrolFreek transforms joypads into arcade sticks
Anew accessory from peripherals manufacturer KontrolFreek allows gamers to give their standard controllers an arcade makeover. The Rcade Freek is compatible with Xbox 360 and PS3, and fits over the analogue sticks to create a more authentic arcade-style experience for downloadable titles such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man. KontrolFreek has …
Read More »Summer of Arcade to drive XBLA card sales
Retailers: Make sure you stock up on Microsoft Xbox Live points cards. The annual summer games lull may be approaching retail, but Microsoft is expecting nothing of the sort on Xbox Live Arcade. The platform holder is kicking off its 2011 Summer of Arcade promotion on July 20th with the …
Read More »The Voxel Agents announces sales of Train Conductor series
Train Conductor and Train Conductor 2: USA have been hugely successful titles for freshman indie developer The Voxel Agents, just passing half a million paid sales and counting. Speaking exclusively to MCV Pacific, the developer has confirmed that the series currently averages 25’000 plays per day on iOS platforms, and …
Read More »Market rebound unlikely unless we get hardware price cuts
Ahead of the publication of the June US video games market numbers, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has predicted big drops for every major format. We expect hardware sales of 325,000 Wii units (down 23 per cent year-on-year), 355,000 Xbox 360 units (down 21 per cent year-on-year), 240,000 PS3 units …
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