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From February 25th Japanese consumers will be able to get their hands on a brand new range of budget Wii software, Nintendo of Japan has confirmed. Kotaku reports that the Minna no Osusume Collection – or the Everyone’s Recommendation Collection – will retail for YEN 2,800 (19). Each title will …
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Digital game trade-in plan revealed
A new PC digital platform is on the way that will allow consumers to sell back their download purchases. Green Man Gaming is due to arrive in March, with over 400 titles available at launch. The service’s customers can trade back their games for discounts on future purchases. The firm …
Read More »No standard SKU for Star Trek Online
The collector’s edition of Star Trek Online will be the only SKU of Atari’s anticipated MMORPG to hit UK shelves. Namco Bandai Partners has told MCV that it will focus only on the Gold Edition in order to encourage consumers to buy the boxed product, over the digital version. Retail-only …
Read More »US: Braid gets boxed release
US publisher and developer MumboJumbo is to release a boxed version of XBLA hit Braid for the PC in North America. The time bending platform game has been a huge success as a download on the Xbox 360, and its retail release goes some way to demonstrating the potential of …
Read More »AUS: Games industry shatters sales records
Australia’s games industry set new sales records last year, with total revenues coming in at AUD $2.05 billion. Data from market research group GfK Retail and Technology Australia showed this figure had increased by 4 per cent when compared to the previous year. Software sales rose by 6 per cent …
Read More »LONDON SPECIAL: Eiconic Games
Our tour of London's developers stops off at Eiconic's remote studio
Read More »Revealed: Average dev salary at £32k
Game developers are slightly richer, new research shows
Read More »DJ Hero best new IP of 09
Though commentators would have you believe that the music game genre is in a savage state of decline, new numbers from NPD Group claim that DJ Hero was in revenue terms the most successful new IP of 2009 across America and Europe. Not a bad achievement, considering it was up …
Read More »Whoops! The noughtiesâ?? most disastrous games
Nicholas Lovell chronicles 10 games which eventually killed their creators
Read More »And the average games biz salary is
Last week we asked readers of mcvuk.com and develop-onlinet.net to respond to an extensive salary survey. Hundreds took part, revealing details on their career and 2010 job prospects. Here we analyse the answers and offer topline insight into the jobs market, and comparing the results to our 2009 survey. For …
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