UK distributor NJOYit Entertainment is reaching out to publisher and retailers – by offering them a free holiday. The company has set up a competition to generate interest in its services, offering entrants the chance to win a vacation in Spain next year. NJOYit was founded as an IT company …

Digital video games retailer Direct2Drive has announced a relaunch of its UK and EU web portals. Both sites now boast a new visual design, an intelligent search and navigation system, improved integration with IGN and a host of new community features. There are also a number of price promotions on …

It looks as if Treyarch is to resurrect one of the most popular features from its last Call of Duty game in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. In a listing on Best Buy’s website, as spotted by CVG, the retailer claims that the Hardened Edition of the game …

The US arm of retailer Amazon has revealed an Ultimate Edition of EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which will include all of the content that has been released digitally since the game’s launch earlier this year. In the box is the original Limited Edition version of the game that includes …

CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S FULLY UPDATED, COMPREHENSIVE RELEASE SCHEDULE. A relatively quiet week sees a handful of new releases heading to retail this week, but the High Street can still expect custom from sports fans. The biggest release of the week is EA’s Madden NFL 11, promising a ‘simpler, quicker, …

Activision has at last revealed what treats await those willing to pay out for the Collector’s Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops – and once again, it’s brilliant. Included in the box will be a RC-XD Surveillance Vehicle that includes a fully-functional remote camera that transmits a colour TFT …

In a frank interview with MCV, System 3 CEO Mark Cale has stated that the challenging nature of modern High Street retail is the driving force behind his new digital distribution experiment with upcoming racer Ferrari: The Race Experience. Last month MCV revealed that the game would be digital only …

The ongoing debate over digital distribution’s role in the future of games seems to have painted offering games for download as an either/or solution. You either go boxed or you go digital. System 3 is determined to dispel this notion. Starting in September, almost all of the publisher’s titles will …

Polarised business models and Sonyâ??s own structure cited as key obstacles

Lazard Capital market analyst Colin Sebastian has increased his sales forecast for Microsoft’s Kinect for Q4 2010. Speaking in an investor note, Sebastian says that how thinks an extra million units of the Xbox 360 motion sensing camera will be sold in the period – brining his total sales forecast …