Tag Archives: mcvuk

It might surprise you that the one point I was called out for most last week wasn’t our contentious cover – but my implication that GAME had given up fighting. That, of course, is not the case. While MCV stands by its widely-discussed cover last week, I should make clear …

Consumers across UK, Germany and France spent over a billion dollars on non-new physical games in the last three months of 2011. According to new data from NPD looking at ‘all monetization methods outside of new physical retail sales’, used games, game rentals, subscriptions, digital full-game downloads, social network games, …

Senior industry sources say GameStop has found another reason not to make an offer for GAME: France. Three weeks ago we reported on industry speculation that claimed GameStop would ideally like to buy GAME assets that would give it a foothold in the British and Iberian markets, but doesn’t want …

Whatever happens to GAME, you can’t say its 6,000 UK employees didn’t put up a fight. Hundreds of store staff lobbied MCV this week with defaced and ‘updated’ versions of our contentious March 16th cover, where we stated that the GAME that we once knew was gone. Despite the uncertainty …

Tomorrow, the Angry Birds invade space – but they also have Great Britain in their sights. Insanely popular mobile games developer Rovio has already announced plans to launch anAngry Birds adventure parkin its native Finland, but now it plans to do the same for the UK, according toReuters. It seems …

The UK government has declared its intention to establish a nationwide game tax break policy, in a dramatic manoeuvre that leaves the British sector in shock and jubilation. Standing in the Commons for his 2012 Budget speech, Chancellor George Osborne said the UK games development industry would benefit from similar …

GAME said its board sees "no equity value left in the Group" and as such wants to be taken off the stock market. The news comes just hours after we revealed the various scenarios ahead for the stricken retailer – one of which was to go into voluntary administration to …

IGN Entertainment has partnered up with Reset Media AB to publishIGN Sweden, which launched last week. The new site will mix Swedish language editorial material with localized material from IGN’s English language teams in the US, UK and Australia. Its editor-in-chief is games media veteran Tobias Bjarneby and the editorial …

Ustwo, the makers of hit app Whale Trail, have signed a publishing deal with Penguin division Pearson. Penguin plans to launch an e-book starring the game’s main character, Willow the Whale, in October, with traditional books to follow in 2013. This is the first time a brand that started as …

Social games giant Zynga wants to acquire Omgpop, the New York based studio responsible for casual games sensation Draw Something, a new report suggests. According to news siteTechCrunch, acquisition talks are at an early stage and it is possible that other companies may be willing to bid for the company. …