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The 2010 MCV Industry Excellence Awards has signed up another sponsorship partner, with growing UK creative force Takeoff Creative Services coming on board as the Drinks Reception Partner. Takeoff was founded in 2003 by a group of video game industry experts who shared the ambition of offering cost-effective first class …
Read More »Dance smash sponsors MCV Awards
Win or lose, at least guests at this year’s MCV Awards will be able to shake their booty into the small hours thanks to current chart-topper Just Dance. The Wii game from Ubisoft has provided the biggest surprise of 2010 so far by out-selling everything during mid-January, remaining at number …
Read More »And the average games biz salary is
Last week we asked readers of mcvuk.com and develop-onlinet.net to respond to an extensive salary survey. Hundreds took part, revealing details on their career and 2010 job prospects. Here we analyse the answers and offer topline insight into the jobs market, and comparing the results to our 2009 survey. For …
Read More »Full report details Chancellor dev snub
The Chancellor’s pre-budget report may have made no mention of the UK games industry, but the complete report explains exactly why the government has refused to help developers. Of the 216 pages in the pre-budget report, the UK games sector was only mentioned once. That citation can be found below, …
Read More »Disney stung by 25% profit drop
Interactive divisionâ??s net loss hits $295 million â?? but revenues hold firm
Read More »GamesAid confirms supported charities
UK video games industry charity body GamesAid has announced the results of its vote on which charities are to receive at least 11,000 in funding as a result of its recent fundraising activities. Five organisations have been named – the Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability, The Willow Foundation, Action for …
Read More »‘Russian ELSPA nearing
Russia is set to officially swear in its first video games trade association. The National Russian Association of Game Industry will be unveiled at new trade show the All-Russian Conference in October. Organisers of ACGi also hope to help establish a ‘Committee of Games Industry Development’ to improve links with …
Read More »Tiga to unite developers with book publishers
Trade body to match-make with Creative Industry Switch initiative
Read More »Gaming market to reach $91 billion by 2015
Global Industry Analysts expects the global gaming market will be worth $91 billion by 2015. This prediction was published in GIA’s latest report, Video Games: A Global Strategic Business Report, which looks at gaming trends between 2001 and 2015. The firm attributed the expected growth in market value to the …
Read More »DIGITAL BRITAIN: The industry responds to PEGI ruling
A number of the most senior figures in the UK video games industry have responded to the government’s move to grant PEGI the sole power of video games classification. We’ve got comments from Nintendo’s UK general manager David Yarnton, Ubisoft MD Rob Cooper, Sega president and CEO Mike Hayes, EA …
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