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The console and mobile games markets are very different beasts. But that isn’t stopping the industry’s biggest publishers bringing their blockbusters to the small screen. The likes of EA and Activison are bringing their triple-A franchises to the small screen to compete in the most populated games marketplace. Activision’s Call …
Read More »Nintendo: Zelda Wii U is a system-seller
Nintendo says its HD update of GameCube classic The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker will help shift Wii U consoles. Nintendo’s home platform has struggled for momentum, with some retailers pulling support for the machine. But the firm is launching a number of its big brands on the console to …
Read More »Blackberry agrees $4.75bn acquisition
Financial services firm and existing Blackberry shareholder Fairfax has agreed to acquire the struggling phone company. The news followsBlackBerry’s loss of up to $995 million in its fiscal Q2 and plans to fire 4,500 employees. Its Canadian counterpart, who owns around ten per cent of its shares, has bought the …
Read More »Apple sells 9m iPhone 5C and 5S units in three days
Official figures from Apple have revealed a record-breaking nine million sales of its new iPhones in just three days. Comparatively, theiPhone 5 experienced sales of five millionon its debut weekend and theiPhone 4S hit four million. Meanwhile, iOS 7 is now up and running on more than 200 million devices. …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Fargher to join Activision, latest vacancies
InMCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Jonathan Fargher is set to join Activision in October and we also look at the best positions available. PLAYSTATION’S FARGHER DEPARTS TO BECOME HEAD OF UK PR AT ACTIVISION The publisher has appointed Jonathan Fargher as head of …
Read More »Swap Force is most pre-ordered Skylanders game
Pre-orders for this year’s Skylanders are 60 per cent higher than last year’s smash hit, Skylanders Giants. It follows news from Activision that Skylanders is the most lucrative games series in the US and Europe this year, and the toys are currently the No.1 action figures. Skylanders: Swap Force launches …
Read More »OPINION: Retail ceasefire contributed to Grand Theft Auto V success
Remember, the App Store launched after GTA IV hit. It has been easy to forget just the level of spectacle that an old fashioned go-to-the-shop-and-buy it games release can deliver. And yes, it certainly delivered, becoming the fastest selling game in the UK ever and grossing $800m in just 24 …
Read More »EB Australia apologises for GTA V fake-cocaine stunt
The Australian arm of games retailer EB Games has issued an apology for a Grand Theft Auto V display in one of its stores that used sherbert as fake cocaine. "Regrettably, one of our EB Games store locations in Queensland set-up an unauthorised display within the store in support of …
Read More »GTA V is the fastest selling game in UK history
Grand Theft Auto V has beaten Call of Duty: Black Ops to become the UK’s biggest ever video game launch. GfK Chart Track data reveals GTA V sold 1.57m units during its first day on sale, generating over 65m in revenue. It breaks the previous record set by Activision’s Call …
Read More »Wilson steps up as new EA CEO
After six months, the search is over, EA’s board of directors has picked the firm’s new CEO. EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson has been named the firm’s new exec leader, announced by the firm in a corporate blog post tonight. According to board executive chairman Larry Probst, EA has been …
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