Having opened its first ever EA Sports Active-dedicated retail outlet earlier this month, EA has told MCV that it sees the stores as the best possible way of promoting its game in the modern games industry landscape. Data showed that 80 per cent of our consumers were recommending EA Sports …

It’s as you were at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week with Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 spending its third week at the top of the listings despite a 32 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. You can read the full Top …

The Call Of Duty series has surpassed 55 million unit sales to date worldwide, taking a whopping $3 billion in retail sales in the process. That’s according to a combination of data from The NPD Group, ChartTrack, GfK and internal Activision estimates, released today by the publisher. The series has …

Home shopping and online retail giant Shop Direct anticipates a strong Christmas for games after tripling its share in the software market. The firm, which bought the rights to the Woolworths brand earlier this year, has bolstered its games offer in 2009 with an even bigger range of products. It …

Giant publisher Ubisoft has left its exclusive UK distribution deal with Trilogy Logistics, MCV can reveal – and is already delivering stock to retail through an open arrangement. Numerous trade sources have informed us that Ubisoft has struck an eleventh hour deal with Essex firm Gem to handle Christmas stock …

Square Enix Europeâ??s London studio restructured to 're-focus vision' for franchise

After a tremendous run of dominance in the games industry, Wii’s bubble might not have burst – but one analyst is claiming that it is certainly deflating. Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz says that a recent survey from the firm suggests that Wii gamers are buying fewer games for their …

Zushi Games has revealed it will launch its first digitally downloadable title in 2010. The publisher will release a new instalment in its Premier Manager series on PlayStation Network for PS3 next year, marking the first time Zushi has shied away from traditional boxed product. As a company we are …

Mercenaries to live on post-restructure at EA LA, publisher confesses

Discount shopping network MyVoucherCodes.co.uk reckons that data obtained from the browsing habits of its 9m monthly users suggest that Xbox 360 is on track to outsell Sony’s rival PS3 console by a ratio of 3-to-1 this Christmas in the UK. Microsoft’s console has gradually increased its slice of purchases made …