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Roy Stackhouse, Activision’s UK senior sales director, was honoured with our Retail Advisory Board’s Special Recognition prize at the MCV Awards last night. Stackhouse has been at Activision for four years, and has held the role of UK sales boss for two years – he was joined the firm in …

Nintendo was once again the big winner in the MCV Awards’ PR & Marketing category. The format-holder’s UK team took home the prizes for Marketing Team and Trade Marketing Team. That makes it five years on the trot for Nintendo to win the Marketing Team award – and the second …

Ubisoft’s Just Dance won two key prizes at last night’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The game took home New Games Brand and Sales Triumph. Not bad for a game that only hit retail just over three months ago. Just Dance has been No.1 in the UK five times this year, …

HMV was the big retail winner at last night’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The entertainment specialist won the overall High Street Chain prize, while one of its individual stores – the 360 Oxford Street branch – won Star Store. Elsewhere, Play.com won Online Retailer, and best Independent Retailer was Grainger …

Supermarket giant Asda was one of the big winners at last night’s MCV Awards. The chain beat out rivals Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s to win the inaugural Supermarket prize at the event. Our Supermarket award was added to the running this year to reflect the diverse nature of retail and …

Activision took home two of the big MCV Industry Excellence Awards last night. The publisher won the Game Campaign award for its work on Modern Warfare 2 and the prize for overall Game Publisher. The firm’s UK senior sales director Roy Stackhouse also won the Retail Advisory Board’s Special Recognition …

Guinness World Records has confirmed what we already knew – that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the most successful entertainment launch of all time. The game released on November 10th, 2009 with verified one day sales totaling more than $401.6 million (242.4 million) worldwide, breaking the previous record …

So-called brain training games have zero positive benefits on the intelligence of players, according to new research. A study by BBC Labs UK, tested 12,000 viewers of the TV show Bang Goes the Theory to practice a series of online tasks for ten minutes a day over a period of …

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has rejoined his former publisher through appointment to its board of directors, while other board members such as Phil Harrison have now officially left the company. Bushnell – a widely-applauded entrepreneur who helped establish the home console business – will join the company along with online …

In fact these middle-tier teams could be the dark horses in the online race. They own powerful IPs, but are small enough to be agile in one of the fastest moving fields. Online businesses demand quick wits and good customer service. Online games businesses need all that and more – …