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An email was sent around yesterday confirming that PALGN’s editorial team will no longer produce site content. The passionate farewell email came from site executive editor Jeremy Jastrzab, who has been a PALGN contributor for 7 years. It informed recipients that the editorial team behind the site would no longer …
Read More »OPINION: Is Britain still great for games?
Our lead stories this week are on face value about very contrasting companies.But together they spell out a dismal message about what the UK market is offering British games firms. So what does the ailing boxed game retailer have in common with the small publisher finding an audience on the …
Read More »Big names sponsor MCV Awards 2012
Green Man Gaming, NCsoft, ShopTo and OPM are the latest firms to lend their names to the 2012 MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The tenth annual Awards take place on April 19th at new venue the London Lancaster Hotel. It will be hosted by comedian and The Inbetweeners star Greg Davies. …
Read More »iOS apps 3x more likely to crash than Android apps
Mobile app monitoring outfit Crittercism claims that iOS applications crash considerably more often than Android applications. Apple’s iOS 5.01 alone accounted for 28.64 per cent of all application crashes across all iOS and Android mobile devices, asreported by Forbesin a ‘Data dive’ into the Crittercism results. Even normalising for the …
Read More »THQ’s 17-game rescue plan
Embattled publisher THQ has plotted a multi-year game release schedule in a bid to calm investor nerves. Last night the publisher announced a net loss of $56 million for the last three months of 2011. In a move to dispel fears, THQ’s executive team last night listed its next seventeen …
Read More »Lender support throws GAME a lifeline
Hours of speculation about GAME’s survival are hopefully over as the retailer has brokered a new deal with its lenders. The Board of GAME Group this evening announced it has ‘concluded discussions with its lending syndicate and agreed revised terms for its facilities’. While GAME has agreed to ‘operate within …
Read More »Want to be big in Japan? Go digital
British publisher System 3 is making waves in Japan – by going digital. The firm’s new Japanese office – headed by Takeshi Shimizu – launched Ferrari: The Race Experience late last year. It was the publisher’s first release in Japan, it shot straight to No.2 in the PSN charts for …
Read More »Latest THQ reorg will ditch 240 staff
240 staff from THQ will be impacted by its latest restructuring – over ten per cent of staff. In an SEC filings this evening, the firm detailed how the previously announced withdrawal from the kids’ licensed games market will hit its business. The resulting restructuring, the firm says, will "appropriately …
Read More »Sims 3 to power new Channel 4 drama SuperMe
Channel 4 has harnessed the Sims 3 engine to power its new online drama played out by virtual actors. The new show, called SuperMe, is set within a fictional English town, and tells the story of four lead characters living in a shared house and follows them through their triumphs …
Read More »Free Apple TV for PCR Retail Boot Camp attendees
An exciting new conference and expo called PCR Retail Boot Camp expo has been announced for the UK PC and IT channel – and today MCV can confirm thatall dealers attending will receive a free 99 Apple TVas part of their VIP Retail Gift Bag. Registration for the event has …
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