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Dan Slingsby was named the best Regional Games Columnist gong at last night’s Games Media Awards. He beat out Ross Wilkinson (Press Association), Steven Fox (Metro), Ian Crump (Southern Daily Echo) and last year’s winner Dave Cook (The Scotsman). Slingsby’s Games Addict is a syndicated column that appears in 16 …
Read More »GMAs 2009: The Guardian wins newspaper prize again
The Guardian won the Games Media Award for best coverage in a national newspaper for the third year running last night. The newspaper beat out The Daily Telegraph, Daily Star Sunday, The Independent, The Sun and Daily Mirror to win. The Guardian hosts a variety of games content, from its …
Read More »GMAs 2009: Blyth named best print writer
Jon Blyth was named the best specialist writer in print at last night’s Games Media Awards. The freelance writer is best known in games for work on PC Zone but has also written for OXM, OPM. Edge, Eurogamer, Vice and The Guardian. He beat out Tom Francis (PC Gamer), Matt …
Read More »GMAs 2009: Shortlist wins Mainstream gong
Shortlist can now boast it has the best games coverage in a mainstream magazine in the UK – and it’s got a Games Media Award to prove it. The magazine and website beat out Zoo, Nuts, FHM and Front for the prize. Shortlist has been published for two years and …
Read More »GMAs 2009: Eurogamer named Best Website
Eurogamer was named the best games website last night at the Games Media Awards. It was the third year running that the site took home the prize. This year the site beat out VG247, Gamespot, Videogamer, NowGamer and IncGamers. MMO editor Oli Welsh accepted the prize, praising his colleagues and …
Read More »GMAs 2009: One Life Left named Best Games Broadcast
After two years being nominated, but never winning, Europe’s only FM games-focused radio show One Life Left was named best games broadcast at last nights Games Media Awards. The show, hosted by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury, is also a popular podcast distributed through iTunes. "Thank you very …
Read More »GMAs 2009: Edge wins Best Games Magazine
Edge was named the Best Games Magazine at the Games Media Awards. The Future mag beat out rivals PC Gamer, OXM, GamesTM and Retrogamer to win. It was the second year running it was named Best Magazine. The award was collected by online editor Alex Wiltshire and staff writer Richard …
Read More »GMAs 2009: Hat-trick for Pat Garratt
Pat Garratt and his site VG247 took home three of the key Games Media Awards last night. The site was named best blog, while Garratt himself won accolades for both best online writer – and was named the Games Media Legend. "This is immensely flattering and it really means a …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Q3 market data
Electronic Arts maintained a generous chunk of market share in the third quarter of the year, MCV-published data can reveal. The quarterly ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack data this week shows shows that the publisher accounted for over 17 per cent of games sales in unit terms from July to September – and over …
Read More »Former Amazon exec sets up games retailer
Ex-Amazon finance director John Pollard has launched his own online video game retail website. According to the Lancashire Telegraph, Playgamesuk.com is based in Preston Road in Ribchester and Pollard hopes to double his company’s 1 million turnover. They basically sold games they no longer wanted and it proved so popular …
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