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Capcom Europe’s COO David Reeves has told MCV that he believes the transition between boxed and digital sales may be heading towards a plateau, and that retail will remain a big part of major publishers’ plans for at least ten to 15 years. He added, however, that the inherent profitability …

Leading execs from Electronic Arts, Activision, Sega, Ubisoft, Future Publishing and more starred in a special sizzle video shown at the MCV Industry Excellence Awards last week. The curtain-raiser music video – this year using Bee Gee’s You Should Be Dancing – played to a crowd of over 620 attendees …

Last week at its Captivate event in Miami, Capcom unveiled three new products – Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, Dragon’s Dogma and Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. It also showed off new content and details for a raft of other key titles, including Asura’s Wrath, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon …

The lobbying period for the 2011 Develop Industry Excellence Awards has now opened. But hurry – you’ve got a week to send in your suggestions for potential finalists. Lobbying is due in by Tuesday, April 19th. We only need a short pitch from you about your company or game sent …

505 Games’ Zumba is the UK’s No.1 video game this week. Although seeing a week-on-week decline in sales after shooting to No.2 last week, the fitness game’s weekly sales still outstripped those of EA’s Crysis 2, last week’s No.1. Sales of Zumba were down 49 per cent, but Crysis 2 …

A slice of action from Battlefield 3 was debuted to the MCV Awards crowd last night – and you can relive the clip below. Due out on November 2nd, the game is headed for PS3, 360 and PC. It’s a direct sequel to Battlefield 2 and the twelfth game in …

Not winning perhaps reveals the difficulty it had last year with some other titles, or the over-achievement of Red Dead. Microsoft winning three and EA winning publisher of the year nods towards these two being considered two of the strongest performers of the last 12 months. Nintendo, meanwhile, has worked …

Ubisoft won the ultimate prize at the MCV Awards: the Grand Prix. CEO Yves Guillemot himself was on hand to collect the prize, which honours both a strong 12 months in the trade, plus an overall history spanning 25 years. The Grand Prix is the only prize solely selected by …

An array of companies took home key accolades at last night’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. 14 different companies claimed the 19 prizes, but no company dominated the winners’ list, reflecting the UK trade’s diversity. 650 execs from retail, publishing, development, distribution, PR and marketing jammed into London’s The Brewery to …

The organisers of Gamescom have announced a number of key exhibitors that have already signed up for the increasingly prominent show’s 2011 iteration. EA, THQ, Konami, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are to have a presence at the event, which last year attracted over quarter of a million …