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Looks like that price cut and new model were worth the investment for Sony: the firm has revealed at CES that the PS3 sales were up 76 per cent year on year globally during December. In total, the format-holder sold 3.8m PS3s for the five weeks from the end of …
Read More »No surprise as Microsoft leak confirms 2010 Natal
A Microsoft slip-up has accidentally released a CES video which confirms Microsoft’s Natal controller will launch later this year – as MCV revealed in November. The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas tomorrow, opened tonight by a special Microsoft keynote from the software giant’s boss Steve Ballmer. But, …
Read More »2009 UK sales numbers show single-format stats
As part of its announcement today talking about 2009’s down-but-not-disastrous UK software sales, ELSPA and GfK-CharTrack have revealed format-specific data. Nintendo Wii ‘stormed the field’ with software sales of over 18 million units in the UK – meaning it is still number one software format in terms of units sold. …
Read More »UK games market down in ’09
The official figures from GfK-ChartTrack are in – and the UK games market’s total value for 2009 was down on 2008, but the sector still managed to generate billions in revenue. ELSPA has today revealed that official data pegs the annual sales figures for the UK games market pegs total …
Read More »‘Motion sensing’ next-gen DS detailed
Nintendo’s successor to its wildly-popular DS handheld will boast highly detailed graphics” and motion sensing capabilities, reports suggest. The Kyoto-headquartered firm has released several iterations of the DS handheld over the past six years. Now for the first time, however, company president Satoru Iwata is openly discussing the system’s next-gen …
Read More »Games industry salary survey returns
Next weeks’s issue of MCV is dedicated to the job market in 2010, and as part of this comprehensive guide we’re running our annual salary survey – and we’re asking readers to offer feedback all throughout this week. The survey is open to anyone in the games industry, whether you …
Read More »Games industry leaders score in New Year Honours
Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens, former EA and ELSPA boss Paul Jackson and Sports Interactive founders Oliver and Paul Collyer have all be named in the The Queen’s New Year Honours list. The bi-annual list of names recognising individual achievements has singled out the four for their various contributions to the …
Read More »UK CHARTS: MW2 still on top
Strong pre-Christmas sales kept Modern Warfare 2 at the top of the UK games chart, according to the latest report from GfK-ChartTrack/ELSPA. The game, which was last week named as the Christmas No.1 on December 21st, maintained its place in the following five days of Christmas trading with a 17 …
Read More »THQ ends long-running WWE legal spat
THQ’s lengthy legal battle with WWE over a joint venture the publisher set up with toy firm Jakks Pacific has finally come to a close. Wrestling organisation WWE had initiated legal proceedings as far back as 2004 under allegations of commercial bribery – it claimed Jakks had paid the former …
Read More »Guardian reaffirms games coverage commitment
UK newspaper The Guardian has today outlined its plans to continue covering games – despite the closure of its weekly Technology supplement. Games content at the paper will now move to its daily weekday G2 supplement – from Thursday, January 7th there will be weekly print reviews in G2, as …
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