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A market that only offers digital video games would be geeky”, inaccessible – and undo the market expansion the industry has achieved in recent years. That was the view of The Hut product director Gian Luzio at the London Games Conference today. Speaking on a panel entitle ‘The New Food …
Read More »LGC 09: Will downloads be worth more than retail after 2014?
The games industry will see a major tipping point towards digital distribution – and finally experience its ‘the iTunes moment – by 2014, according to analyst Nick Parker. Referencing reams of data, and an industry survey which grilled key execs on the future of digital downloads, he said that serious …
Read More »‘Why the games industry needs the Tories’
Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey discussed his vision for the UK games industry under a Conservative Government today at London Games Conference. Here, MCV prints his speech in full… Imagine for a moment you are a politician. You have to make a speech, and you want to highlight a world-beating …
Read More »LGC 09: Gordon Brown is failing games industry, say Tories
The Conservative Party this afternoon launched its biggest attack yet on the Government for its treatment of the UK games industry. Speaking at London Games Conference at BAFTA, Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told a packed room that a Tory Government would extend the remit of the Film Council to …
Read More »Change4Life backs Wii Fit Plus
ELSPA has welcomed the decision by the Department of Health to endorse Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus – making the first game to be allowed to use the NHS’s Change4Life logo in future advertising. As first reported by MCV, the Change4Life endorsement will be used across Nintendo’s promotion for Wii Fit …
Read More »The nuts and bolts of the IP conundrum
So when a retailer declines a new release, it’s just a polite way of saying ‘not right now’ or ‘no one’s going to be interested’. After all, book stores don’t stock every book in print, right? And music stores don’t stock every album available, do they? Well, of course they …
Read More »EA warns against copycat publishing
Electronic Arts UK VP Keith Ramsdale has warned that publishers producing ‘me too’ product will struggle on Nintendo formats. The publisher unveiled its Flips range last month – a line-up of e-books for kids on DS from popular authors including Enid Blyton and Eion Colfer. And Ramsdale said that the …
Read More »That' a novel idea…
EA will release kids’ e-books range Flips for DS on December 4th. Tim Ingham catches up with UK boss Keith Ramsdale and head of EA Play Harvey Elliot… Will you be taking Flips global? Harvey Elliott: There are territory restrictions based on the publishing agreements we have with each of …
Read More »MCV online traffic grows again
Online readership of leading UK games trade site MCV has hit a new peak. The targeted site, which focuses on the retail and publishing channel, offers daily news and analysis, plus chart information, jobs and real-time release schedule updates. It is published alongside the influential print and digital edition of …
Read More »Black Wii coming next month
Nintendo has confirmed it will launch a limited edition black Wii in the UK and Ireland on Friday, November 6th. The console will hit mainland Europe two weeks later on November 20th. Nintendo senior product manager for Wii Rob Lowe told MCV: Nintendo has always taken the European market seriously …
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