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MCV asks Bethesda’s PR and marketing VP asks if the smash hit RPG has changed the publisher’s ambitions… Were you expecting the numbers you saw with Skyrim? Not at all. We expected it to do really well, but none of us expected it to explode like it did. Although I …
Read More »"Super Hexagon doesn’t hate you," Cavanagh tells MCV
Having enjoyed a brief pseudo-launch last week, yesterday Super Hexagon finally arrived proper on the Apple App Store. And if your Twitter feed is anything like this author’s, last night was abuzz with chat about the title. And for every ‘Wow this is amazing’ there was a common caveat. I …
Read More »Peter Moore on the gulf between the digital and retail worlds
INTERVIEW: MCV talks to EA COO Peter Moore about a market in transition, the future of discs and his costly Bejeweled habit… Thanks to gruelling media training, most senior games industry execs have been groomed to never say anything off message. Every comment, for most publishers, is on-brand with little …
Read More »Ouya: We feel a responsibility for those who backed us
Julie Uhrman, the CEO of Ouya, has told MCV that her company feels a burden of responsibility to deliver on all of its promises for its thousands of backers. The Ouya Kickstarter closed last week having raised an astonishing total of $8,596,475 from 63,416 separate backers. We’ve been stunned by …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Activision’s Peter Hepworth and Michael Sportouch
Activision now claims to have not one, but two of the biggest franchises in games, serving two very different audiences. MCV asked European VP Michael Sportouch and UK & Ireland MD Peter Hepworth if Call of Duty and Skylanders can keep growing in the face of a pressured retail market …
Read More »New Xbox, Konami and Amazon UK studios detailed in this week’s MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features details on a trio of new London studios, the last of our four interviews with EA and tips on surviving Gamescom. That’s on top of the latest charts data from Chart-Track, the PlayStation Network, Steam, Apple and iOS. …
Read More »The Develop in Brighton Twitter interview
4.30pm today: Miles Jacobson, Andrew Smith and Will Luton look forward to the Develop in Brighton Conference
Read More »INTERVIEW: Franko Fischer, Gamescom
Gamescom has announced new exhibitors, more floor space and a focus on mobile gaming. Koelnmesse’s communications manager Franko Fischer tells James Batchelor why this is shaping up to be the world’s biggest ever games show Gamescom is set to be even bigger this year – now up to 140,000 square …
Read More »INTERVIEW: SCE CEO Andrew House
Andrew House felt he was heading into the lion’s den ahead of his first major press conference since becoming CEO of PlayStation. SCEA president Jack Tretton had lapped up the whopping and adulation as he introduced violent action games to the bloodthirsty crowd. House’s job was to show the same …
Read More »YVES ONLINE: MCV interviews Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot
Just over one year ago, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot fired a warning shot at EA and Activision. The resolute yet softly-spoken Frenchmen told MCV that Ubisoft was on a trajectory to become the No.1 publisher in the world. Today, he’s not so sure. The market is changing,” he says. We …
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