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Sony DADC now handles over half the French games market’s distribution following the acquisition of Supply Chain Performance. Swooping for the business based just outside Paris helps the firm make good on its promise to grow its power in physical distribution across all of Europe. In February, Sony DADC told …
Read More »Steam to keynote London Games Conference
The biggest digital distributor in games will address the trade at the London Games Conference. Jason Holtman, director of business development for Steam at US super-developer Valve, will present a keynote at the November event about the digital market. He will be joined by Sega’s John Clark, head of digital …
Read More »Euclideon ‘did not expect [Unlimited Detail] to snowball’
Brisbane-based company Euclideon has demonstrated its new voxel engine allegedly capable of 100’000 times better graphics than exist today. The engine maps the objects in a game world as a series of individual points rather than a series of polygons, and claims to be able to do away with the …
Read More »OPINION: No Stopping Them
How’s this for a success story? GameStop has gracefully and legitimately worked itself into the UK games trade. And that’s by closing physical stores – not opening GAME rivals or buying up Grainger as the nose-tappers would have you believe – and establishing a compelling and credible .co.uk. Publishers, distributors …
Read More »Khiet Chu joins SEGA Australia
SEGA Australia has welcomed a new junior product manager, Khiet Chu, to the marketing team in its Sydney office this week. Chu has three years experience in the promotional marketing industry, and comes to SEGA from his previous role as a production coordinator at Corporate Express Ltd. His educational background …
Read More »Jarratt first to jump from Future Publishing
Steve Jarratt will leave Future Publishing next month, MCV understands. He is the first big name to leave the firm after it said the UK operation will be downsized by 10 per cent. Jarratt will depart at the end of the consultation period, which Future hopes to have wrapped up …
Read More »UK High Street definitely ‘off the plan’ for GameStop
GameStop has told MCV that DOES have designs on a big slice of the UK games market. But the retailer says it will get it through its new UK website NOT a bricks and mortar assault. As we reported last week, the chain has put paid to years of speculation …
Read More »KMM rumoured to be absorbing Team Bondi
Kennedy Miller Mitchell (KMM), videogame arm of ‘Happy Feet’ producers Dr. D, is rumoured to be bringing Team Bondi on board. According to an article on Kotaku, Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara and several Team Bondi employees were recently given a tour of the Dr. D offices. The article cites …
Read More »The complete guide to Edinburgh Interactive
The games industry is coming together for the ninth Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival in August. MCVprovides a complete timetable of events rounding up all the sessions and screenings Why you shouldn’t miss this year’s eventby Edinburgh Interactive chairman David Yarnton I believe that this year’s Edinburgh Interactive will be the …
Read More »GAME and GameSpot to host Deus Ex event
Namco Bandai Partners, GameSpot AU and GAME are giving consumers the chance to experience Deux Ex: Human Revolution early. A preview event is slated to take place on 17th August at Goldfish Bowl in Sydney for winners of separate GAME and GameSpot competitions. The GameSpot competition requires entrants to answer …
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