MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
The Sunday Times has named Microsoft as one of the UK’s best 100 companies to work for – and the Xbox 360 platform holder is the only tech firm to be named in the list. Microsoft ranked 21st in the overall list. The newspaper said that 88 per cent of …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Empire Total War tops the charts
RETAIL BIZ: Killzone 2’s reign at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 has been cut short after just one week with the news that Sega’s PC RTS Empire: Total War has entered the listings at number one. Sony’s PS3 exclusive FPS slips to second this week, …
Read More »Download Change4Life ad here
MCV has uploaded a high-resolution version of the Government’s controversial Change4Life ad – click here to take a look . If you want to save the ad to your computer, simply right click on it and select ‘save image as’. Since MCV announced that it had filed an official complaint …
Read More »MCV appointed key international partner by E3
A partnership has been signed between this year’s E3 Expo in Los Angeles and leading games trade title MCV. The agreement is part of E3 Expo’s widened reach this year, with its aim being to attract more accredited retailers and media from outside the US. Published by Intent Media, MCV …
Read More »US: Circuit City closes its doors
Circuit City closed the last of its 567 stores yesterday, putting an end to the firm’s retail operation in the US. The company’s expiration has been a drawn out and public affair, having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last November and going into liquidation in January. Click here to read …
Read More »JAPAN: PS3 tops hardware charts
The arrival (and, indeed, solid success ) of Sega’s next-gen RPG brawler Yakuza 3 in Japan has seen Sony’s PS3 recapture the top spot in the Japanese hardware sales charts. Media Create numbers show that PS3 sold 36,513 units in the week ending March 1st, ever so slightly ahead of …
Read More »Tiga submits formal Change4Life complaint
UK and European development trade body Tiga has become the latest organisation to speak out against the Government’s Change4Life campaign, joining the likes of Sega and Atari in their condemnation. This advert is absurd and insulting in equal measure,” CEO Richard Wilson stated. To imply that playing a video game …
Read More »NZ: Jail term for parents who allow kids to play violent games
A leading New Zealand official has said that parents who allow their kids access to mature games should face prosecution – and possibly a spell in jail. Current New Zealand law allows for the prosecution of parents who do not prevent their children accessing media rated above their age, with …
Read More »Government urged to delay VAT increase
Ahead of the proposed reimplementation of the 17.5 per cent VAT rate on December 31st, The British Retail Consortium has urged Government to postpone the change, Retail Week reports. VAT was dropped from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent last year as part of the Government’s plan to avoid …
Read More »6,000 iPhone games now available
The credibility of Apple’s iPhone as a serious contender in the modern platform market has been given a big boost with the news that over 6,000 games are now available for the system. The number also points to Apple’s content provider, the App Store, as a hugely important publishing route …
Read More »