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The axe has come down at News Corp’s struggling MySpace social network – but it looks like sister division IGN will gain more independence as a result. Rupert Murdoch’s media empire today confirmed that it is cutting MySpace back to a skeleton crew in the US, with most of its …
Read More »Nintendo praises console diversity
Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton believes rival firms Sony and Microsoft are as equally important in promoting the industry to the next generation of game development hopefuls. Speaking at the Learning Without Frontiers event today, Yarnton set aside old rivalries to say the arrival of both Sony and Microsoft in …
Read More »Time to be more transparent with total market data?
And this week a rival entertainment medium put us to shame. Video’s respective trade group had a gamut of data for both physical and digital on hand to prove DVD and Blu-ray’s 2.6bn robustness. Pre-owned aside, there is something the games industry can do to show we’re worth it, too. And …
Read More »Dismissing those winter blues
And if the rumourmill is to be believed, we’ve got at least one new Sony handheld on the way too. Renewed excitement around games handhelds cannot come soon enough – if they’re not too late. My most enlightening moment at Christmas was when an eight-year-old relative told me that now …
Read More »Develop celebrates its 10th birthday
Develop, Europe’s leading resource for games developers, has hit its tenth birthday. MCV’s sister title is ten years old today, with the December/January issue now with subscribers – a decade after the first issue, cover date January 2001, arrived for the increasingly sophisticated development sector. You can read the anniversary …
Read More »Nintendo dominates pre-Xmas week sales
So in our chart analysis of games sales during the last big spending week before Christmas has shown Black Ops at No.1, with Wii Fit Plus and Just Dance claiming No.1s of their own. We’ve seen PS3 score a huge chunk of the top ten sales – in the face …
Read More »Wii Fit Plus is UK’s Xmas Budget Games No.1
Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus may have been just the ninth-bestselling game in the UK last week – but while it didn’t come close to toppling Black Ops from No.1, it scored a small victory outside of the All Formats chart. The fitness game made it to the top of the …
Read More »Just Dance 2 – the REAL UK Xmas No.1?
Black Ops may rule the roost in terms of blockbuster sales and be this year’s official Xmas No.1 – but the teams and Ubisoft and Nintendo are probably still smiling regardless. Just Dance 2 may not have outsold the combined might of Call of Duty, which typically skews towards 360 …
Read More »Big chill freezes UK games market
It’s usually the biggest spending period for the games industry – but the last weekend before Christmas offered no growth for the UK games retail. According to MCV calculations based on exclusive UKIE/Chart-Track data, the UK retail market was worth 78.7m last week – a small drop from 79.6m the …
Read More »PS3 rules UK Xmas Top 10
Sony always said its long-term strategy would pay off for PS3 – and this week the Xmas charts prove it. The UK games charts published by UKIE/Chart-Track show that last week the combined sales of PS3 games listed in the All Prices, All Formats top 10 outnumbered those games sold …
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