The UK MD of publisher Sega has downplayed fears expressed by retail last month concerning the rising power of Valve’s digital distribution network Steam. Let me narrow down some publicly available market figures for you,” John Clark told MCV in an exclusive interview. In 2009, nearly 75m boxes were sold …

Do you enjoy your job? Thinking of changing sectors, or have you just done so? If so, we want to hear your story as part of our annual salary survey. MCV is asking for industry members to tell us about their experiences of moving around the games industry over the …

John Riccitiello has come up with a solution to Nintendo’s falling profits: cut the price of the Wii to just $99. The Electronic Arts CEO believes that such a price point would help the platform holder’s sales explode” at retail, according to Industry Gamers. He also claims this would keep …

Retail will not match 2009’s sales figures, despite a Q4 sales surge. Record-breaking sales for FIFA 11 and Black Ops have helped retail beat last year’s Q4 numbers. According to MCV calculations based on Chart-Track data, retail needs to sell more than 20m units and make 313m in three weeks …

Kongregate's CEO shares more details on the digital distributor's new gift card initiative

This January, MCV will provide a comprehensive guide to the job market in 2011, including our annual salary survey – and we’re asking readers to offer feedback. The survey is open to anyone in the games industry, whether you work in retail, publishing, games development, the games media, marketing & …

GameStop and Jolt Online Gaming have launched Utopia Kingdoms, a new free-to-play Facebok game. The title is based on the popular browser-based Utopia series and allows Facebook users to build and manage their own fantasy kingdom. The launch is the latest move from US retail giant GameStop into the casual …

The struggling music genre just needs one big hit to get it out of the doldrums, says EA’s worldwide music executive Steve Schnur. And he hinted to MCV that EA has a few titles on the way that could be just the answer. His comments came in response to questions …

Sega’s executive vice president of sales and marketing Alan Pritchard has confirmed that the publisher will release a Dreamcast Collection for current-gen machines. Recent weeks have seen the release of both Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi on both XBLA and PSN, with Space Channel 5 also in the pipeline. It’s …

When MCV caught up with the UK top Xbox execs recently, they were in high spirits. A lot of that had to do with the fact their Xmas party was just hours away. The UK team were ready to toast another year of hard work. But there was another cause …