HMV is back from the brink after months of turmoil, CEO Simon Fox has told MCV. The entertainment retailer hit difficulties earlier this year after issuing multiple profit warnings on the back of falling sales. But now Fox says that the 53m sale of its Waterstone’s chain will help the company …

The secret behind Amazon’s success isn’t really a secret at all. The world’s largest online retailer generated some $34bn in revenue last year. Its Kindle device is more popular than ever. And in the UK, its games team is doing the business, picking up a well-deserved MCV Award for its …

Research by Ofcom has found that while more people are using mobile broadband than ever before, available bandwidth has decreased and download times have increased. Among the findings was the fact that average download speed is now 1.5Mb/s, while basic webpages take around 8.5 seconds to load, compared to download …

The UK’s biggest supermarket is to begin taking pre-orders for this November’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from midnight tonight. Tesco has placed in the ad in a number of national papers today, though it doesn’t state what price it will be selling the game for. It does, however, …

Ubisoft is showing retail how it’s done by opening its own High Street outlet. The firm has sublet a store on Dean Street in Soho to support upcoming Kinect game Child of Eden. It will boast two floors, with a ‘chill out area’ and three game trial rooms, as well …

THQ is pumping 1m into marketing its new male-focused keep-fit title, UFC Personal Trainer. Unlike other fitness games on the market, it features specific mixed martial arts exercises used by Ultimate Fighting Championship competitors. This is part of a bid to win over the male gamer as well as female …

CEO on the crisis talks at EA's darkest hour, and how far the firm has come from failure

Ian Shepherd, the CEO of leading UK games retailer GAME, has said that the attitude of publishers toward pre-owned has changed. As long ago as 2005 publisher bosses were openly bemoaning the revenues lost to retail’s pre-owned sales. It has even been said the sector poses a bigger threat than …

Consumers have reacted positively to Amazon UK’s trade-in offer, the company has told MCV. In January this year, retail experts criticised Amazon’s game trade-in plans. ShopTo’s former marketing manager Phil Driver told MCV the long process of trading in online would be ‘intolerable’ for consumers compared to store trade-ins. However, …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is still having a major impact at retail six months after its release. And not just in terms of unit sales, either. The multiformat first person shooter was responsible for the biggest ever week of sales of Xbox Live points cards earlier this month. …