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UK publisher Codemasters has announced that this Friday’s release of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of F1 2010 will be the largest in the company’s history. 2m copies of the console game have been shipped to retailers in Europe and North America, and it will also be available …
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DVDs and CDs out, video games in
The US arm of retailer Best Buy is to increase the shelf space it gives to video games by cutting the allocation granted to DVDs and CDs. Daily Finance reports that the extra footage will be used to maximise sales of new launches such as PlayStation Move and Kinect, as …
Read More »THQ still sees opportunities on Wii
Third publishers who continue to treat Wii with scepticism may be letting opportunities slip them by, THQ CEO Brian Farrell told MCV. Do we see big growth prospects on a platform that’s been out for so long? No. But are there opportunities? Absolutely,” he stated. Some times you have to …
Read More »INTERVIEW: THQ
After a tough couple of years THQ appears to be on the road to recovery. How have you managed it?The whole restructuring has been focused on the right titles. I think the entire industry realised that there were too many products. Back in October 2008, we said we were only …
Read More »Who does the Daily Mail blame for iPhone shortages?
The Daily Mail has published an article claiming professional gangs of traders are buying up vast quantaties of the UK’s iPhone 4 stock and shipping it abroad. The tabloid claims this is "depriving ordinary customers of getting their hands on them." Apparently, these hoards of ‘runners’ are paid around 70 …
Read More »Digital passes boxed in PC games market
A new report from American stat analysis group NPD suggests that the value of digital PC games market is now far greater than the boxed sector. The numbers claims that 11.2m PC games were purchased in North America between January and June 2010. In the same period just 8.2m boxed …
Read More »Amazon moves to aquire LoveFilm
Amazon.com has made a 200 million bid to acquire movie rental company LoveFilm. According to Retail Week, this is not the first time Amazon has expressed interest in the rental service, having taken a 42 per cent stake in the business in 2008. The privately owned LoveFilm currently has around …
Read More »Who are the games industrys rising stars?
The UK games market’s up-and-coming hot shots will once again compete for industry recognition as MCV readies its annual presentation of the top 30 rising stars aged under 30. You can nominate your staff, a colleague, a peer or even yourself by emailing MCV Editor-in-Chief Michael.French@intentmedia.co.uk. The ever-popular 30 Under …
Read More »Morrisons joins ERA board
Morrisons buyer Kevin Lee is the latest addition to the ERA board. He was elected as part at the ERA AGM yesterday, and means all four of the UK’s biggest supermarkets are now represented by the association. He is joined by We7’s music strategy boss Clive Gardiner, Alan Jordan who …
Read More »iPad ‘cannibalising’ laptop sales
Best Buy’s CEO has hinted that Apple’s iPad is taking market share from laptops. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Brian Dunn said that the retailers internal estimates suggested that iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 per cent.” The revelations come as …
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