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New research claims that consumers consider physical product to be more important in games than in newspapers, films or music. A survey of over 1,000 people by research firm Ipsos MediaCT found that 64 per cent preferred physical discs for their games over digital copies. Newspapers followed closely with 63 …
Read More »Amazon crowned UKs biggest etailer
Online leader Amazon has once again been named as the biggest etailer in the UK by analyst Experian HitWise. TechRadar reports that Amazon has claimed the top spot every year since the firm started producing the league table. Catalogue specialist Argos claimed second place just ahead of entertainment giant Play.com …
Read More »Pachter: Industry in permanent decline
We expect investors to remain spooked by the May results, as they are beginning to reinforce the notion that the video game industry is in a state of persistent secular decline.” That’s the somewhat startling assessment of famed games analyst Michael Pachter in light of further declines in the US …
Read More »Disney: Monetisation key to Tapulous deal
Disney has confirmed last night’s report that it has acquired Tap Tap Revenge developer Tapulous. And the media giant says one of the key reasons it bought the iPhone games firm is due to its innovative magnetisation model. Tap Tap Revenge is available as a mix of free and premium …
Read More »OPINION: Apples response analysed
Could Apple recall the iPhone 4? Will they dish out free bumpers for everyone? Is there actually no problem at all and we’ve allowed ourselves all to be brought into the hype? Opinions will continue to differ, but Apple has at last published a full and lengthy response to the …
Read More »iPhone 4 – Apple’s OFFICIAL response
Apple has at long last issued a full response to the ongoing crisis enveloping the iPhone 4 and its antenna design. And here it is in full: Dear iPhone 4 Users, The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers …
Read More »Play Crackdown 2, get Perfect Dark content
Rare has announced an interesting piece of promotional cross-IP marketing with the confirmation of a special reward for Perfect Dark players. The developer has confirmed that its recent Xbox Live release Perfect Dark already has within it a playable version of Crackdown 2’s lead character Agent 4. Anyone who next …
Read More »JAPAN: Low interest in 3D TV
A survey conducted by Kakaku.com in Japan paints a worrying picture for the prospects of 3D TV in the region, Reuters reports. 67.4 per cent of those questioned claimed to have no interest in buying a 3D TV. Of those, 70 per cent blamed the need to wear special 3D …
Read More »JAPAN: Xbox sales jump 800%
With the launch of the Xbox 360 S still two weeks away in the UK, the redesigned version of Xbox 360 has done wonders for the machine’s performance in Japan. Andriasang reports that on its first week of availability sales of the machine hit 17,370 – 15k of which were …
Read More »NPD: PS3 sales grow once again
Though the PS3 continued to lag behind Xbox 360 in both the April and May markets in the US, Sony’s machine is on a remarkable run that has seen it post its ninth and tenth consecutive months of year-on-year sales growth in North America. Since May 2009 the PS3 has …
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