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Day one delivery is crucial to online retailers. It drives pre-orders and secures sales that may otherwise have gone to High Street rivals. However, this is dependent on shipping and delivery times. To ensure a game arrives on release day – besting the convenience of picking it up in-store – …
Read More »VIDEO: Check out the first footage of Gran Turismo 6 here
Sony has officially unveiled Gran Turismo 6, a brand new entry in Polyphony Digital’s acclaimed racing simulator series. The cat was let out of the bag earlier today, and Sony teased a proper reveal last week. And now it’s officially official, so check out the first footage for yourself below. …
Read More »INTERNATIONAL FACTFILE: Cyprus
Cyprus was hit hard by the Eurocrisis, and this has hurt the region’s video games market. The high price of games in the territory is impacting both the customer and the retailers. Games retail is struggling but generally at this time, it’s not good in any markets. Games are coming …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New Nintendo team, top vacancies
InMCV’s weekly roundup of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, THQ’s Richard Stickler joins a newly restructured Nintendo UK team. Promotions and hires for Nintendo sales and marketing teamFormer Gem and THQ employee Richard Stickler (pictured) has joined Nintendo as ecommerce channel sales manager and will be dealing …
Read More »INTERVIEW: GameSpot’s ambitions for eSports and video shows
CBS Interactive’s SVP David Rice tells MCV why the site is focusing more on original video content and professional gaming. How has the games media market changed in 2012, and how has GameSpot adapted? On the news and information side of games media, it is a tale of two stories. …
Read More »Ouya secures $15m in additional funding
A further $15m has been poured into Ouya, the Andoid console originally crowd-funded by Kickstarter. The company’s CEO Julie Uhrman said this additional investment was important to ensuring the long-term future of the device and would help increase production to meet demand. High retail demand was the reason given earlier …
Read More »Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon now available in stores
Ubisoft is giving the High Street a chance to cash in on its latest digital smash, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. The download-only expansion to blockbuster title Far Cry 3 topped the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network charts this week. It reached No.2 on Steam. And now physical retailers can …
Read More »Ouya to miss June 4th launch
Crowd-funded Android console Ouya will not launch at the beginning of June, as was originally planned. Instead, it will land on shelves a few weeks later on June 25th. Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman claimed the console was delayed in order to meet retail demand, according to Joystiq. "We’ve had incredibly …
Read More »THQ’s Rooke joins Creative Assembly
Former THQ marketing boss Jon Rooke has crossed over to the development sector as brand director at Creative Assembly. Sega has been building dedicated PR and brand teams around its key studios, and Creative Assembly already has a growing team that includes global PR manager Rebecca Attard and communications manager …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New Lionhead boss
In MCV’s weekly roundup of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, the former CEO of Cryptic Studios heads up Lionhead and we look at the best vacancies. Lionhead names new studio bossJohn Needham has been named as the new studio boss at Microsoft-owned developer Lionhead. Needham previously worked …
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