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The music-centred New York Music office of Future Publishing has been acquired by NewBay Media. The division posted a loss of 3.8m in the year ending September 30th 2011. NewBay operates dozens of websites, magazines and events. That leaves the media giant with just its games-focused San Francisco operation on …
Read More »Hopes remain for Stalker 2
Ukraine studio GSC Game World is fighting on after alleged financial troubles and widespread reports that the studio had almost certainly closed. The firm is seeking immediate cash to drive its current project to competition. "We are still in the process of seeking funding to back up the project," GSC …
Read More »Segerstrale steps up at EA
Kristian Segerstrale, the co-founder of London studio Playfish, has been appointed to a senior role at Electronic Arts, as another key executive quits to join Zynga. Taking on the task as EVP of digital, Segerstrale will assemble his own team to define and manage the business side of the EA …
Read More »Batman: Arkham City, Skyrim win 2011 critics award
Warner Interactive’s action sequel Batman: Arkham City and Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were the two highest rated console titles of 2011 according to reviews aggregation site Metacritic. Both won an average review score of 96. Also scoring 96 was indie hit World of Goo. This makes the trio …
Read More »Just Dance IP grooves its way to 25m sales
Ubisoft’s powerhouse Just Dance series has now reached the 25m global unit sales barrier. The IP was propelled through this milestone by the success of Just Dance 3, which itself has now passed the 7m unit sales barrier. Ubisoft reckons that people” globally spend a collection 23m minutes playing Just …
Read More »EA hits $1bn annual digital revenue target
In July of last year MCV ran a piece entitled Riccitiello’s $1bn digital dream”. Now, six months later, we can confirm that the EA CEO’s dreams have come true. Having confirmed the publisher’s achievement, Riccitiello described it as an incredibly important milestone". The most pleasing thing for EA is that …
Read More »2011 US games market down 8% leaving UK as worst performer
NPD has confirmed that the US video games market declines eight per cent year-on-year to $17.02bn in 2011. That’s the same rate of decline that was seen in Japan last year, and sadly leaves the UK out alone as the worst performing video games market out of the traditional ‘big …
Read More »Gara: Sony UK suffering from PS2 hangover
New SCE UK boss Fergal Gara has admitted that the business will have to sharpen up under his stewardship. What I find at SCE is that we’ve lots of passionate and committed people. But there’s definitely an opportunity to up the pace of our competitiveness,” Gara told MCV. We still …
Read More »PS2 Killzone coming to PS3 on PSN
Guerrilla Games’ 2004 PS2 shooter Killzone is to receive a release on PSN. Game Informer reports that it won’t be a full HD remake, but instead an emulated title offered as part of the existing PS2 library. It has been given a price of $9.99 in the US. The game …
Read More »Black Ops beats Modern Warfare 3 by 0.5m copies in UK
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may have shattered records left, right and centre, but it fell far short of its predecessor in the UK. As revealed by MCV this morning, ERA’s 2011 UK Entertainment charts reveals that Modern Warfare 3 sold 2,814,609 copies in the UK between its …
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