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Nintendo UK’s Dawn Paine has been promoted to assistant general manager and marketing director, MCV understands. She will still hold her responsibilities as marketing director, we believe, but also takes a broader role in the business operations at Nintendo UK acting as a conduit for cross departmental projects and championing …
Read More »Sony 3D headset due December
Sony’s unique stereoscopic 3D headset will be available in the UK from December 8th, MCV understands. The unusual head-mounted viewing display is set to launch in Japan on November 11th, but Sony is already promoting the device in the West. The firm’s UK retail arm, Sony Centre, has priced the …
Read More »PlayStation Vita UK release confirmed for February 22nd 2012
Sony’s wasting no time locking in launch plans for its next handheld. The format-holder has tonight confirmed the PlayStation Vita will arrive in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia on Wednesday, February 22nd. North America gets the handheld on the same day. That’s just two months after the Japanese …
Read More »Mojang wins Bethesda injunction in Scrolls case
Mojang Specifications has won an interim injunction in its court battle with Bethesda over its upcoming title Scrolls. We won the interim injunction! We can keep using the name ‘Scrolls’,” said Markus ‘notch’ Persson on twitter.ZeniMax/Bethesda can still appeal the ruling, but I’m very happy.” The court’s overall assessment does …
Read More »10 reasons why you can’t afford to miss LGC 2011
Going to the London Games Conference?You are? Excellent. You’re not? Well here are 10 reasons why you should definitely change your mind 1. IT’S THE LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE November 10th marks the third outing for LGC, which debuted in 2009. In just a short space of time it has become …
Read More »RIM offers $100 of free apps following Blackberry outages
Following RIM’s worldwideBlackBerry signal failure, the firm plans to make it up to the millions of irate customers with a selection of apps in a bid to "work tirelessly to restore their confidence." BlackBerry users received little or no information from RIM on the service outage, which has led many …
Read More »Peter Moore keynotes the EB Expo
TheCOO of EA, Peter Moore, has made a personal appearance at Australia’s biggest ever games event EB Expo to deliver a keynote address. His talk spent a considerable amount of time recounting the path games have trodden to get to where they are today, reminiscing about the pre-console FPS days, …
Read More »Lenovo is now the world’s second biggest PC manufacturer
Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has surpassed Dell to become the world’s number two PC maker according to data from research analysts IDC and Gartner. IDC data reported that the firm shipped 12.6 million units in the last quarter, capturing 13.7 per cent market share. Lenovo boss Yuanqing Yang said the firm …
Read More »Moshi Monsters’ Lady Goo Goo gagged by Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has successfully taken out an injunction against the creator of manufactured character Lady Goo Goo – preventing any music being officially released from the virtual pop star. Goo Goo, created by global kids community site Moshi Monsters, enjoyed around a million views per month on YouTube for would-be …
Read More »OPINION: Spending money to make money
Big money being pledged on Q4 drive; Bethesda is reaching the mainstream There’s just a 16m difference between 2011’s big games marketing pot and 2010’s.With at least 165m set aside to promote the big Q4 games this year, you’d be forgiven for thinking we haven’t just come out of some …
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