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Sony’s widely acclaimed PS3 thriller The Last of Us is the UK number one game this week. The game has comfortably claimed the top spot, and helped drive a surge in the games market, which was worth 12.4m last week (stat calculated by MCV based on GfK/Chart-Track data). The market …

Tag Games' Chris Kelly offers advice on how to land a role in analysing data

Hit releases such as BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider were sadly unable to stop another month of annual decline in the US video games market. Total video games industry sales declined ten per cent year-on-year to $1.9bn, Gamasutra reports. That is of course an improvement on February’s 25 per cent …

Joost van Dreunen encourages developers to focus on internal data they can trust

No third parties were involved in yesterday’s Xbox Entertainment security breach, Microsoft has confirmed. MCV yesterday revealed that the Xbox Entertainment website was displaying the names, gamertags and addresses of nearly 3,000 users who had voted on the site. However, the platform holder has assured MCV that data was only …

The rebooted Tomb Raider is the new UK No.1. Square Enix’s revamp of the long-running franchise has debuted at the top of the charts, and is also the biggest game launch of 2013 so far. It has comfortably doubled the week one sales of previous best seller Aliens: Colonial Marines. …

UK games execs were left scratching their heads last month after a string of big budget action games failed to lift games retail out of the gloom. Last month UK games stores sold 1,854,954 games, a drop of 19.9% over February 2012. And that’s despite big name releases including Dead …

This latest MCV– which isnow available to view online– discusses the state of the UK games industry. We reveal the value of the video games merchandise, mobile and events industries, and analyse the full Chart-Track market data for February. The issue also features an interview with the Sony UK team, …

Sony’s decision to slash the Vita’s price to just 19,980 – that’s around 140! – has certainly reaped rewards. The powerful handheld shifted 62,543 units in Japan last week according to Media Create data. That’s a very significant jump over the 11,456 units sold the week before. It wasn’t quite …

Sony Japan’s president Hiroshi Kawano has revealed that sales for Playstation Vita are up 400 per cent in Japan. During a press presentation for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 translated by Gematsu, Kawano revealed the spike in units sold – pointing to the handheld’s recent price drop in the region. …