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Digital retailer Green Man Gaming has secured fresh funding from London-based venture capital firm, Eden. The investment company specialises in working with new technology companies and its portfolio includes Blinkbox, We7 and Reevoo. Ben Tompkins, partner at Eden, commented: The management team of Green Man Gaming has taken the company …
Read More »‘Zero calls’ about 3DS dizziness at Nintendo UK
Nintendo has told MCV that is has not received a single call relating to dizziness or feelings of sickness from 3DS owners in the UK. The response comes on the back of a report in The Sun today claiming that "Hundreds of furious gamers have slammed Nintendo’s new 3DS console …
Read More »Tabloid 3DS dizziness stories begin
As some in the industry were fearing, national UK newspaper The Sun has today run a story with the headline "Nintendo 3D ‘makes gamers dizzy & sick’". "Hundreds of furious gamers have slammed Nintendo’s new 3DS console – for making them feel ill," it reads. "Fans besieged gadget websites and …
Read More »Tesco laughs off GAME’s 3DS stock plot
Leading UK supermarket chain Tesco has responded to news of GAME’s 3DS stock purchase plan with a short, dismissive statement. An internal memo was leaked onto the internet yesterday showing that GAME instructed employees about an optional plan to buy low price 3DS consoles from Tesco and then sell them …
Read More »New 360 discs get 1GB boost
Tech blog Digital Foundry claims to have word that the "updated disc format" being trailed on Xbox 360 adds around 1GB of extra capacity to DVD discs. It says the new standard is called XBG3. Current Xbox 360 discs have a capacity of 7.95GB, though 1.15GB of this is dedicated …
Read More »Bowles replaces Boita at SCE UK
SCE UK has welcomed a new marketing manager to its team this week. Mark Bowles has moved over from SCEE, where he has worked for five years. He was product manager for Gran Turismo and responsible for the popular GT Academy competition. Bowles was subsequently promoted to senior brand manager …
Read More »GamesAid darts night raises £800
The games industry raised over 800 at this month’s GamesAid darts evening. More than 50 members of the industry stepped up to the oche. The big winners were Beautiful Game Studios’ Ben Nelson and Stephen Morrison. GamesAid vice chairman Caroline Miller told MCV: Plans are afoot for another one – …
Read More »Former Tecmo Koei boss joins Zynga
Kenji Matsubara, the former Tecmo Koei CEO, is to join Zynga’s Japanese business arm. Matsubara will begin his duties on May 9th. The social studio’s current CEO of Japan operations, Robert Goldberg, will step down but is said will advise Matsubara in a consultancy role. Goldberg said he was very …
Read More »3D off the cards for Wii 2
Despite its heavy investment in 3D for its latest piece of hardware, the 3DS, Nintendo has suggested that its next home console is unlikely to follow the same path. "Glasses-free is a big deal," NoA boss Reggie Fils-Aime told CNN. "We’ve not said publicly what the next thing for us …
Read More »3DS breaks US Nintendo records
Nintendo has stated that its new 3DS handheld has broken all previous US hardware sales numbers for the company. However, it has stopped short of actual revealing any data, saying it won’t do so until April 14th when it will have had chance to check its data with NPD. "US …
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