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Some of the UK’s largest retailers face a potentially damaging Government crackdown on the sale of VAT-free entertainment goods shipped through the Channel Islands. Online divisions of HMV, Tesco, WH Smith, Asda, Argos, Amazon, Play.com and Woolworths.co.uk currently dodge millions of pounds of tax on CDs, DVDs and games that …
Read More »It Asda be progress
Asda announced exciting new plans for games at its annual entertainment conference last month. Christopher Dring sat down with head of games buying Duncan Cross and category director Fergal Gara… Tell us about the new store concept at Asda.DC: We started opening the ‘future concept’ stores in June last year. …
Read More »Top innings from Codemasters
Its Ashes Cricket 2009 game outsold the flagship Wii Motion Plus game Wii Sports Resort, which is only in its third week on the market. More impressively Ashes didn’t just rely on dominating the Wii. Its sales were quite evenly spread across all the consoles. And it’s the first British-produced …
Read More »Buzz builds for Canadas key dev show
As the fifth annual Montreal International Games Summit fast approaches, event organiser Alliance Numrique has opened early bird registrations for the show. The event, set to launch from November 16-17, will see key speaker sessions from companies such as Maxis, Valve, Square Enix and Media Molecule. Early-bird registration discounts could …
Read More »EA Sports: Weve finally cracked female market
EA Sports has finally solved the dilemma of how to appeal to the female market. That was according to label boss Peter Moore this morning, speaking to delegates at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Discussing the reinvention of EA Sports since his arrival in 2007, Moore said that the firm had …
Read More »Europeans spent 8.5bn on games in ’08
Market data firm GameVision provided some key insight into the games market in Europe at a talk at the Edinburgh Interactive conference this morning, revealing that €8.5bn was spent on software last year. However the firm said that the widely reported rise of casual and massmarket gamers hasn’t accounted for …
Read More »Well rival Nike and Sky, says Moore
EA Sports president Peter Moore has claimed that the label will become a more important to sports fans than Nike, Adidas, Sky Sports and Fox in future – as it bids to become the world’s leading sports brand”. Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this morning in a loudly applauded …
Read More »Deering: 10m sales the new milestone
Former SCEE president and Codemasters chairman Chris Deering told the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that publishers of today’s biggest games should aim for ten million sales – as the ‘winners win big’ from changes in business models. Industry legend Deering cited Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, which he said had sold approximately nine …
Read More »GRIN confirms company shutdown
After twelve years in the game development business, Swedish outfit GRIN has finally buckled under sustained financial pressure and has closed its doors completely. According to a statement from the company’s founding brothers – Bo and Ulf Andersson – the group has been forced” to shut down due to too …
Read More »Future in ABC blackout
Future Publishing will decline to release six-monthly ABC figures for any of its games portfolio tomorrow, MCV can reveal. The publisher has traditionally released the data – which shows its magazine sales numbers from January 1st to June 31st – every August. However, this year the publisher has opted to …
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