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Last week we asked readers of mcvuk.com and develop-online.net to respond to an extensive salary survey. Hundreds took part, revealing details on their career and 2010 job prospects. Here we analyse the answers and offer topline insight into the jobs market, and comparing the results to our 2009 survey. (Note: …

And yes, on paper the Group has seen a year-on-year decline in sales. But unfavourable comparisons to the record-breaking numbers of 2008 perhaps mask the fact that GAME is still one of the gems of the UK High Street. And let’s not forget it is the industry’s champion on the …

Yet by Nintendo’s reckoning there’s still life in the old DS yet. It’s hard to disagree. It was the UK’s best selling games hardware in 2009 – accounting for a massive wedge of the 2.7m handhelds sold in total. With Nintendo readying both bigger and better hardware now on a …

MCV is looking to grow its editorial team – with both in-house full time staff writer and night editor freelance vacancies open. For our in-house role, a genuine passion for journalism is required, plus some understanding of video games. Not the other way round. The role is working out of …

Ubisoft has revised its earnings projections for its third quarter – citing a slowdown in the DS market, slow back catalogue sales and a move towards triple-A titles. The firm’s sales targets for third-quarter and full-year 2009-10 have been revised downwards to €495m and around €860m respectively, from the previously …

While the UK’s leading games specialist retailer GAME today confirmed sales were down over Christmas, the chain has said its preowned offer continues to grow. Across all territories the firm operates in, it said second-hand sales presented year-on-year growth over Christmas. A year ago, the firm started reporting specific figures …

GAME has issued its annual post-Christmas trading update this morning – and it looks like the UK retailer bore the brunt of the local market’s dip in sales. Sales for the five weeks ending January 9th were down by 12.1 per cent across the whole group, while group like-for-like sales …

Electronic Arts this evening announced it is down-grading projections for both full year revenues and trading during the Christmas season. The firm has lowered its yearly guidance from $3.6bn-$3.9bn down to $3.6bn-$3.675bn. CEO John Riccitiello blamed two factors for the drop: a "soft December for EA and packaged good sector …

Comments made by EA’s CEO in this evening’s investors conference call suggests Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released in Spring 2011. During the call – which discussed the firm’s decision to reduce its projected revenues for FY2010 – John Riccitiello said the firm’s next ‘major MMO’ is making …

Then, next week, Army of Two: The 40th Day arrives. Resident Evil Archives hits just a week after. Mass Effect 2 seven days later, and MAG another week on. Then a little over seven days later there’s BioShock 2, with Dante’s Inferno close behind. Then there’s Splinter Cell: Conviction. Then …