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Atari’s UK managing director Jeremy Wigmore has told MCV that the company still has great faith in its boxed product business – despite all of the media speculation surrounding Phil Harrison ‘s new online project. Ever since their respective appointments at the firm, Harrison and new Infogrames CEO David Gardner …
Read More »New director joins Trilogy Board
Trilogy Logistics has recruited Lisa Derbyshire to its Board as trading director. Derbyshire has a wealth of experience within distribution having worked with Deluxe, before running her own firm, consulting for the likes of Sony DADC, 2entertain and Tesco. We are very pleased to have such a well established person …
Read More »Prey 2 officially unveiled
After a web-based leak at the weekend appeared to announce the existence of Prey 2, official word has now emerged of the follow-up to 2K Games’ Xbox 360 and PC FPS. The game is being handled by new developer Radar Group, which is being headed up by 3D Realms’ Scott …
Read More »New EA Sports IP inbound
Speaking on his brand new blog , EA Sports boss and former Xbox head Peter Moore has said that gamers can expect an announcement about a new EA Sports IP pretty soon. I’ve seen speculation the past few days about the comments we’ve made recently about new IP coming this …
Read More »US: Smash Bros is Nintendos fastest selling title
Having shifted a considerable 1.4 million units since its release in the territory on March 9th, Wii title Super Smash Bros Brawl has officially become the fastest selling Nintendo game ever in North America. A huge 874,000 copies of the game were sold on its first day at retail, and …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Mario & Sonic do it again
There’s seemingly no stopping Sega’s Wii and DS sports title, as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games fights back to claim the top spot on the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 for the fourth time. This is the seventh week the game has spent at number one – this …
Read More »FEATURE: UK February Charts analysis
The latest exclusive MCV UK Charts analysis, in conjunction with ChartTrack and ELSPA, shows that February was a tough time for the PC market – though not for chart-toppers Nintendo and EA. "Looking at the format share and you’ll notice that the PC is not doing particularly well at the …
Read More »UK February Charts – Analysis
"If you look at the Total Software by Label/Company charts you will see that there is a disparity between the units sold by Nintendo and the value this month. "The reason behind this difference is partly due to Wii Play. Wii Play always shifts a lot of units (All Formats …
Read More »Capcom to Plunder digital downloads
Publisher Capcom plans to increase its focus on the digital download market with the launch of new IP Plunder. The firm’s digital output began in 2006 with the release of Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, and it released Rocketman: Axis of Evil only last week. However Capcom’s senior European marketing …
Read More »Nintendo set for explosive April
The release of Wii Fit on April 25th will see the next chapter in the platform holder’s wider mission to seduce non-gamers, says Nintendo UK marketing director Dawn Paine. And with Mario Kart arriving just a few weeks before on April 11th, Nintendo believes it will raise both mainstream and …
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