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HMV has made a number of key changes to its Head Office team. The moves are designed to boost the firm’s online and digital business, as well as grow new categories such as technology. Commercial director Steve Napleton (pictured right) will now focus exclusively on developing the retailer’s e-commerce, digital …
Read More »New boss for Asda’s entertainment team
Sanjib Dosanjh is Asda’s new category director for music, video and games. He takes the role from Fergal Gara. Gara has now moved into the new role of development director for home and leisure, with a brief to develop the grocer’s non-food business across Asda’s entire portfolio. This includes Asda …
Read More »Call of Duty takes 2010 UK crown
Call of Duty: Black Ops is the UK’s biggest selling game of the year, according to Gfk Chart-Track. The first person shooter – which sold 2m units in its first week on sale – beat off competition from FIFA 11, Just Dance and Red Dead Redemption to take the prize. …
Read More »Tesco appoints UK Board
Tesco has formed a specific Board to help boost sales for its UK operations The new team is being set up ahead of the arrival of the firm’s new Chief Executive, Philip Clarke. Laura Wade-Gery has been named commercial director for non-food items, namely clothing, electronics and general merchandise. She …
Read More »Online retail calls time on Christmas
As predicted by MCV, UK online retailers are telling customers to buy their games today or they won’t get them in time for Christmas. GAME has pushed forward its last order date to today (Friday, December 17th). Consumers must order before 8pm tonight to guarantee delivery before Christmas. This affects …
Read More »Retail threatens Steam ban
The world’s biggest digital games retailer is under attack. MCV understands that key ‘traditional’ retailers will drop titles that integrate the popular Steam service as fears mount that the it has a ‘monopoly’ on the download market. Insiders say Steam, run by US studio Valve, serves a massive 80 per …
Read More »NPD: DS and 360 dominate
Nintendo DS was the best selling console of November in the US, according to NPD. Nintendo said its family of DS products sold 1.5 million units last month, driven by the new red SKU. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 was the biggest selling home console by shifting 1.37 million units – an …
Read More »NPD: Dance games spark music recovery
US sales tracker NPD has finally revealed some good news for the struggling music genre. Music game sales are 38 per cent higher in November 2010 than they were during the same period the year before. But it’s not Rock Band 3 or Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock that did …
Read More »NPD: Black Ops sells 8.4m in the US
Call of Duty: Black Ops has broken records in North America, selling 8.4 million units in just one month. It is the biggest launch month for any video game in US history, and is already the seventh best-selling game of all time. Black Ops accounted for 25 per cent of …
Read More »GT5 hits 5.5m units worldwide
Sony has shipped 5.5 million units of Gran Turismo 5 into retail worldwide. That includes 3.56m copies in PAL territories, 1.25m products in the US and 500,000 units in Japan. Overall, there’s been 61m Gran Turismo games sold since the original 1997 release. Gran Turismo sales to date (Worldwide): Gran …
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