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California dreams of broadening the games audience were put on hold in LA this week – as all of the industry’s major players knuckled down on theircore titles. Turn any corner at the Los Angeles Convention Center and you would find format holders and third-parties wanting to reclaim and pander …
Read More »GameStop: Next-gen consoles WON’T block pre-owned
Industry insight or wishful thinking? Global games retail giant GameStop believes that the PS4 and Xbox 720 won’t incorporate pre-owned blocking technology. Since the turn of the year separate rumours have suggested that both the Next Xbox and the PS4 would utilise methods to either prevent gamers from playing games …
Read More »E3 2012: Wii saves and games can transfer to Wii U
Nintendo has confirmed that it is working on a method that will allow gamers to transfer Wii content to the Wii U. This will include existing game downloads and save game information. However, the platform holder did add the caveat this it is preparing” the tech, suggesting that it has …
Read More »Game-only crowdfunding platform revealed
A new games-specific equity-based crowdfunding platform has made a call for developers to submit proposals. Gambitious is pitched as the first professional crowd funding platform exclusively dedicated to the games industry, and has been set up by a group of developers and publisher Mastertronic. The platform, hailing from Holland, offers …
Read More »E3 2012: Wii U will support 1080p, releases full game list
Nintendo’s Wii U will support Full HD 1080p visuals, a new tech sheet has confirmed. The supported resolutions are 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i. It will also support a wide range of outputs, at least compared to most modern consoles, offering HDMI, Wii D-Terminal, Wii Component Video, Wii RGB, …
Read More »E3 2012: OnLive claims "millions" of users, 100% uptime since launch
OnLive has claimed that it has millions of subscribers worldwide”, but has once again decided not to reveal the number of gamers paying to use its service. OnLive went live at E3 2010 with just 19 games in its library on only PCs and Macs over Ethernet,” an official statement …
Read More »E3 2012: European PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection detailed
The European version of Sony’s PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection has been detailed by SCEE. As revealed at Sony’s E3 presentation last night, PS+ has been revamped with a significant amount of extra content on offer to those who sing up to Sony’s annual 40 subscription service. As of tomorrow …
Read More »NPD lifts the lid on size of alternative games market
While ISFE boasts an impressive survey of European gamers, NPD is for the first time sharing its data on non-new, non-boxed video game sales in the UK via MCV. Its latest report in the Q4 2011 spending on areas like pre-owned, rental, subscription and digital games reveals just how big …
Read More »NPD: UK’s Q4 used games market was £90m
British gamers spent nearly 100m on pre-owned software during Q4 2011. According to NPD data shared with MCV, $141.9m (90m) went on used game purchases during Christmas. That’s just ten per cent of the 780m GfK Chart-Track reports was spent on new boxed video games in the same period. The …
Read More »Five top High Street games stores
MCV and Koch Media round off Independent Retail Month with our final special feature focusing on the sector. This week, we look at five of the UK’s top stores. Seedee Jons Established: 1993Stores: 1Based: Jersey, Channel IslandsContact: 01534 769405Web: www.seedeejons.com Games now make up almost 70 per cent of this …
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