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Tesco’s non-food sales for H1 2010 have increased 2.5 per cent year-on-year in the UK. The supermarket giant made 4.4bn in non-food for the 26 weeks ending August 28th, 2010. The firm says the growth in non-food is slowing because the ‘important’ electrical and entertainment categories struggled during the second …
Read More »Nintendo predicts 4m 3DS sales in first month
Nintendo has forecasted that 3DS will sell 4m units before the end of March 2011 worldwide. The firm also wants to sell 15m 3DS games by the same deadline. The announcement was made as part of Nintendo’s revised sales forecasts, where it slashed its profit projections for the 2011 financial …
Read More »Nintendo slashes sales forecasts
Nintendo says it will make 90 billion YEN (680m) for the financial year ending March 2011, less than half its original estimate. The firm had been expecting to make 200 billion YEN (1.5bn). Nintendo blames stronger than expected YEN appreciation, disappointing sales performance and the ‘decided release conditions of 3DS’. …
Read More »UK CHARTS: F1 takes pole position
Codemasters has cut short Halo’s stay at the summit of the All Formats Top 40, with F1 2010 racing to No.1. The game outsold both Halo: Reach (No.2) and Dead Rising 2 (No.3) combined and is the first F1 game to steal a lead at the top of the charts …
Read More »HMV victorious at Industry Quiz
HMV emerged triumphant at last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Quiz, fending off stiff competition from Microsoft, GameSpot, Imagine Publishing and Tesco. A mixture of retailers, media, peripheral firms and publishers gathered at London’s Sway Bar to battle to be the biggest brains in games, and win some pretty spectacular prizes, including …
Read More »Morrisons joins ERA board
Morrisons buyer Kevin Lee is the latest addition to the ERA board. He was elected as part at the ERA AGM yesterday, and means all four of the UK’s biggest supermarkets are now represented by the association. He is joined by We7’s music strategy boss Clive Gardiner, Alan Jordan who …
Read More »APB to close as rescue bid fails
Realtime Worlds’ administrator will scale back efforts to rescue the collapsed studio, Develop can reveal, and MMO APB will be closed. The game is still available to buy at a number of retailers. But it looks like players will no longer be able to go online with it. Administrator Begbies …
Read More »Can Halo effect lift the market?
It has been a difficult period for the UK games market. Toys R Us, Argos and HMV have all blamed the ‘weak’ games sector for a tough summer of sales, while last week the UK games market suffered its worst seven days of sales since May 2006 – before the …
Read More »AGI sponsors LGC
Packaging and creative firm AGI has tied up with the UK’s premier games conference. The company is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s event, entitled London Games Conference: Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry. AGI joins key sponsors IGN UK, InComm, Virgin Gaming and The Hut. AGI is very …
Read More »New low for UK games market
The UK games market’s weekly value has fallen to its lowest point since May 2006, according to Gfk Chart-Track. According to MCV’s calculations, based on today’s Gfk-ChartTrack/UKIE weekly report, the UK market has hit 11.8 million for the week ending September 11th, down from 14.2 million the week before. The …
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