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A new eight-page gaming section will appear in the Daily Mirror next month, following a deal with Future Publishing. Entitled The Ticket – powered by GamesMaster, the new section will debut in the paper’s entertainment guide on Friday, December 10th with a Sonic the Hedgehog themed edition. The section is …
Read More »Profits up at Future
Future Publishing has posted a slight increase in profit for the year ending September 30th 2010. The period saw profits of 8.3m, up from the 7.6m in the same period a year before. Revenue fell one per cent to 151.5m. Net debt was reduced by nearly 50 per cent to …
Read More »Nintendo ponders Metroids future
Nintendo has admitted that it will fall far short of selling the 1m units it had predicted for September’s Wii release Metroid: Other M. The game has a respectable Metacritic average of 79 per cent and managed to finish in the September Top Ten in the US. However, despite managing …
Read More »ANALYSIS: The future of Blockbuster UK
As Premier League football clubs prove on a yearly basis, having a lot of debt doesn’t necessarily mean you are a bad business. Take Manchester United, it reportedly owes around 520m, but it still attracts over 75,000 fans a week, has a wealth of high profile assets and is regarded …
Read More »Future reorganises Nintendo editorial team
Future has strengthened its Nintendo editorial team ahead of the launch of 3DS next year. Former Official Nintendo Magazine editor, Neil Long, has been promoted to editor-in-chief of Future’s Nintendo portfolio – which includes Official Nintendo, NGamer, Wii on-console Nintendo TV and Girl Gamer. Long joined Official Nintendo from MCV …
Read More »FIFAs disc-less future
In an exclusive interview with MCV, EA Sports boos Peter Moore has outlined an ambitious plan to transform FIFA from a franchise that relies on annual disc-based releases to a persistent online game that evolves on a continuing basis. Football for most of us is pretty constant,” Moore stated. This …
Read More »1m votes for Golden Joystick Awards
With just over two weeks of voting still to go, Future has announced that one million votes have already been cast in the 28th Annual Golden Joystick Awards. Categories this year include Action Game Of The Year sponsored by Nuts, ITN Game On Shooter Of The Year, Downloadable Game Of …
Read More »Langdell ordered to announce â??edgeâ?? defeat
Final chapter in legal war with EA, Future Publishing, Mobigame and the industry at large
Read More »Richard Keith forms Games Tribe
Erstwhile Future publisher Richard Keith has set up a new online games media company, called The Games Tribe. Launching in the first week of October it will be, in part but not only, an aggregation hub for a range of niche sites. Some will be existing, low budget outfits that …
Read More »Future closes PC Answers
Yet another PC mag has closed at Future this week. The media firm told MCV it will be closing PC Answers – just as the final edition of PC Zone hits newsagents as well. PC Answers’ final issue will go on sale next month, allowing Future to focus on other titles. …
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