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The biggest night in the UK video games industry calendar took place earlier this month, and you can now relive some of the best bits of the MCV Industry Excellence Awards 2011 in the video at the bottom of this story. Over 600 guests jammed into The Brewery, Chiswell Street …
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GAME: Wii successor will ‘challenge conventions’
A new version of the Wii? Something completely new? Details about Nintendo’s confirmed Wii successor are non-existent, but retailer GAME is already excited. "The Nintendo Wii has been one of the most popular games consoles in recent years, and has transformed the gaming landscape," Neil Ashurst, Head of UK PR …
Read More »Grave expectations for GAME financials
Leading UK video games retailer GAME reports its annual financials tomorrow – and the national press is expecting a significant slump in profits. The Guardian reports that GAME will report a 60 per cent drop in profits for the year ending January, a downturn it blames on the rise of …
Read More »Nintendo gets creative for new Art Academy campaign
Nintendo’s latest sampling tour will use Art Academy to inspire the UK’s budding artists. The platform holder’s Create Britain campaign kicks off on Thursday, May 19th to promote artistic pastimes to consumers via the 2010 DS release, which has sold more than 345,000 copies in the UK. Nintendo reps at …
Read More »Lace Mamba signs 1Cs CoD-beater
The game that ‘will beat Call of Duty’ is coming to the UK via Lace Mamba Global. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is a World War II FPS and has been championed by the press. PC Gamer US even wrote a piece entitled: ‘Why Red Orchestra 2 will beat …
Read More »Nightmare Easter for Sony
It’s a nightmare for PS3 owners, it’s a nightmare for content providers but most of all it’s a huge nightmare for Sony. A long bank holiday weekend is often a golden chance for gamers to get some serious hands on time with their consoles. But at the time of writing …
Read More »Doctor Who 3DS case in-bound
A new Doctor Who 3DS case will reach retail next month. The Doctor Who and Daleks Accessory Pack is due on May 10th, 2011 with an RRP of 14.99. It arrives shortly after the first new episodes in the brand new Doctor Who series, which kicks off this weekend (Saturday, …
Read More »Meet Tesco’s new games boss
Sarah Kaye has been waiting to take the games hot seat at Tesco for over six months. She was recruited from Activision in June last year to eventually succeed former games chief John Stanhope. Stanhope is part of Tesco’s director development programme and as a result was recently tasked with …
Read More »TESCO: Food for Thought
Of all the things you expect Tesco to talk about, cloud gaming, the digital future and saving physical product is not amongst them. Those are the topics you imagine GAME to harp on about at its next strategy update. Not the head of entertainment at a retailer that’s primary business …
Read More »MCV iPad app hits 6,500 users
The MCV iPad app has hit a new milestone this week with total subscribers passing the 6,500 mark, with 2,000 new issue downloads per week. And this week’s edition is the perfect time to check out the digital version as it includes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of …
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