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Nintendo of America is predicting that the DS will emerge as the best selling console of the year in North America, with sales for the year to date already topping the six million mark – that equates to one machine sold every five seconds. "There’s no letup in sight," NoA’s …
Read More »Games spearhead HMV growth
UK retailer HMV has announced its financial results for the 26 weeks ending October 27th, which show profits of 25.9 million, a big improvement on the 26.1 million loss in the same period last year. Total sales for the period hit 790.2 million, up from the 767.2 million in the …
Read More »Stringer: PS3 selling 200,000 units per week in Europe
Speaking earlier today, Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said that the firm’s three-year cost cutting reforms, which included the sale of its Cell CPU business to Toshiba , had placed the firm in a strong financial position that will allow it to bring back some of the wow factor that …
Read More »Former Pogo boss heads to K2 Networks
The CEO of Metacafe and former CEO of Pogo.com (property of global publishing giant EA) Erick Hachenburg has joined the board of directors at blossoming online games publisher K2 Networks. Hachenburg has been in the online games industry for over 15 years, and also formerly served as EA’s online publishing …
Read More »Gamestations Gibbs to edit MCV
MCV has a new editor, with Gamestation’s Martyn Gibbs coming on board to manage the Christmas issue of your favourite games trade read. There are only two issues of MCV left before we all take a well-earned break for the Christmas period. But they’re ones to watch. This Friday we …
Read More »CentreSoft reveals new trade promotion
Leading distributor CentreSoft has joined forces with SCE UK to kick off a new promotion offering retailers the chance to win top prizes. The competitions, run in conjunction with SCE UK, include a window dressing competition for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, as well as a Sony back catalogue offer. The Uncharted: …
Read More »Bizarre working on new Bond game?
When Activision snapped up Project Gotham developer Bizarre Creations in late September the publisher proudly stated its intention to make big waves in the racing genre , but rumours claim that the UK developer is pencilled in to work on a new James Bond game. MCV, however, understands that another …
Read More »No More Heroes censored in Europe
Rising Star Games, the publisher of upcoming Wii title No More Heroes, has confirmed that that European version of the game will see the same cuts experienced by Japanese gamers when it is released over here next year. In North America, however, publisher Ubisoft has stated that the game will …
Read More »Atari settles North American Dragon Ball Z dispute
Following the announcement of a complete restructuring of its North American relationship with Infogrames, Atari has also confirmed that it has settled its dispute with Dragon Ball Z licence holder FUNimation. Earlier this year FUNimation issued a notice to Atari threatening to terminate their current agreement due to alleged contract …
Read More »US Atari restructuring complete
Following a prolonged period of turmoil in North America, the restructuring of the relationship between classic games label Atari and parent company Infogrames is complete, bringing with it a complete overhaul of US operations and relationships. Atari will now handle the distribution of Infogrames products in North America for the …
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