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GAME Retail has cut the price of its GTA V special edition by 10. The firm’s exclusive special edition is now available for 59.99, with an extra 5 off for customers who enter the code GTAFIVER at checkout (more information right here). The original price was 64.99. MCV understand that …
Read More »The Xbox shop is a sign of things to come
Xbox hates retail, right? Before last week’s U-turn, Xbox One was going to destroy the pre-owned market, cripple retail’s one profit-making area, and accelerate the move into digital. It was going to kill GAME and GameStop. MCV has never bought into this argument. For starters, Microsoft has a 429 console …
Read More »State of Decay scores third XBLA UK No.1
For the third week in a row, State of Decay is the best selling Xbox Live Arcade game in the UK. The game has managed to sustain its success and keep Minecraft from its No.1 position for longer than any other game has managed for over a year. Outside of …
Read More »Digital-only Euro 2012 game was ‘ahead of its time’, says EA
Next year’s FIFA World Cup tie-in could be a full game, after EA admitted that its Euro 2012 download didn’t meet expectations. The publisher decided against building a boxed game for last year’s European Championships, and released a downloadable add-on for FIFA 12 instead. But the firm told MCV the …
Read More »Crytek reveals its publishing ambitions
Developer Crytek will become a fully-fledged publisher in a matter of weeks. The company behind Crysis will publish its free-to-play game,Warface. Former NCSoft marketing boss Dirk Metzger was recruited last year to put together a publishing team, which is now complete. With Warface there now is a good opportunity to …
Read More »Read our big interview with EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson in the latest MCV
This week’s issue of MCV features our big interview with the head of EA Sports, Andrew Wilson. Who tells MCV why the firm must not mess up the next generation. There’s plenty more. Xbox 360 overtakes Wii. HMV has a new-look games team. We chat to Xbox and GAME on …
Read More »Xbox 360 overtakes Wii as the UK’s No.1 games console
Xbox 360 is this generation’s best-selling home games console in the UK, says GfK Chart-Track. Microsoft’s platform will overtake Wii in a matter of days, the stat tracker says. Xbox 360 is regularly outselling all rivals in hardware terms, and has now shifted 8.4m consoles across the country. This is …
Read More »Green Man Gaming launches Xbox 360 and PS3 trade-in offer
Gamers can now trade-in physical Xbox and PlayStation games at online retailer Green Man Gaming. The store, which already lets users trade-in digital games, has launched its physical offer now. Customers will receive their money for their games as soon as they promise to send them in. There’s no need …
Read More »The Sony Interview: Play to Win
Sony’s stinging attack on the Xbox One business model at E3 saw the PlayStation firm take pole position in the next generation console race. Here, SCEE CEO Jim Ryan tells MCV why it hasn’t won yet… What’s the aim for PS4 2m consoles sold by Christmas? (Laughs). I think right …
Read More »Sony’s Jim Ryan and Fergal Gara talk PS4 in the latest MCV
The MCV team have returned from E3 to reveal the true winner of the show and dictaphone filled with interviews. For our first issue back, we have put together a full and detailed interview with Sony Computer Entertainment’s Jim Ryan and Fergal Gara about PS4, Vita and continued support for …
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