South Peak is to give Horrid Henry: Missions Of Mischief a shot in the arm with a renewed marketing push. The publisher has drawn up a second marketing campaign to raise awareness of the Wii version, which hits shelves today. The move has also been prompted by the success of …

GAME Group’s sales have fallen 10.8 per cent for the 44 weeks to December 5th – despite strong sales of FIFA and Modern Warfare 2. Like-for-like sales were for the same period were down 15.1 per cent, while total UK sales were down 14.3 per cent. Meanwhile, for the 18 …

An Israel-based company that directly provides streaming games to set top boxes has claimed its service will offer publishers long-term revenue opportunities when it launches next year. PlayCast allows modern video games to be played live via on-demand TV providers such as BT and Virgin Media, without the need for …

A hero of British publishing and development for the past four decades, Ian Livingstone finds himself at the centre of Square Enix’s ‘new’ Eidos. Tim Ingham catches up with Lara Croft’s right-hand man…Can you give us a general impression of how the Square UK ‘merger’ has gone – and how …

It already boasts a popular and competitive MP3 marketplace and now leading national supermarket Tesco has taken a huge stride into the digital video space with the announcement of its new Virtual DVD offering. Using Microsoft’s Silverlight – an ambitious rival to Adobe’s Flash technology – the products will offer …

So it’s with wide arms that we welcome Alworths to the retail fold. It’s not been an easy ride for Andy Latham’s new chain. One of the original architects, Tony Page, left the project early on, while Shop Direct – owner of Woolworths.co.uk – is threatening legal action over the …

Woolworths’ former development boss has told MCV he will open up to 200 Alworths stores throughout the UK – and games will be stocked in all outlets. Andy Latham – MD of the new retail chain – launched the first five Alworths stores last month. He has hired a team …

SCEA has revealed that its PS3-only third person sandbox adventure InFamous has sold 1.2m copies worldwide since its release this summer according to the US PlayStation blog. Whilst selling a million copies is certainly not to be sniffed at, the number is surely below what both Sony and developer Sucker …

Microsoft is to introduce games-on-demand as part of the Games for Windows Live service, mirroring the introduction of a similar retail portal on Xbox Live earlier this year. Titles confirmed for launch include Capcom’s Resident Evil 5, THQ’s Red Faction Guerrilla, Eidos’ Battlestations: Pacific as well as some indie offerings …

Square Enix emerged victorious at last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Quizmas Party, after fighting off Amazon and Imagine Publishing. A mixture of retailers, media, peripheral firms and publishers gathered at London’s Sway Bar to battle to be the biggest brains in games, and win some pretty spectacular prizes, including Xbox 360 …