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It is undeniable that this current generation of consoles has changed the face of gaming demographics. The success of Wii and DS has created the highly lucrative casual market. Retail is now enjoying long-tail hits and impressive sales that are unaffected by traditional trading seasons. However, it’s important to remember …
Read More »Ubisoft suffers Q1 sales decline
Ubsioft has reported that sales for the first quarter of 2009-10 came to €83 million, down 50.6 per cent (or 50.8% at constant exchange rates) compared with the €169 million recorded for the same period of 2008-09. First-quarter sales for 2009-10 came in 12.6 per cent below the company’s guidance …
Read More »Update your diary with MCV
As another month draws to a close, it’s easy to loose track of the various conferences, expos and consumer shows. For that reason, to keep you abreast of all the essential diary dates, MCV bring’s you a round up of the forthcoming events and conferences. Keep an eye out on …
Read More »Shiny Media – My bit part in its downfall
I wasn’t expecting it to last, though. My previous noisy start-up experience was with Computec Media UK which, much like Shiny, started off making all the right sexual sounds about throwing its money around, hiring all the best people regardless of salary demands and changing various industry landscapes. Then budgets …
Read More »UK CHART: Wii Sports Resort hits No.1
Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort has hit top spot in the ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 in its debut week. The title, which comes bundled with the Wii MotionPlus accessory, clocks up the fourth-highest week one sales for a Wii game, behind Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Mario & Sonic …
Read More »Video games to save MySpace
News Corp is to strengthen the video gaming offering on MySpace, in a hope to close the gap on Facebook, which currently courts more users. As reported by Reuters, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference in Pasadena, California, News Corp digital head Jonathan Miller has been discussing the importance …
Read More »Gordon Brown: Im a gamer
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has revealed that he will spend this summer playing video games with his children. The news featured in a Daily Mirror interview, in which Mr Brown answered questions on how he and wife Sarah Brown would fill their time during Parliament’s summer recess. The newspaper reports: …
Read More »A new dawn?
But the next twist in this unfortunate tale – like all great gunslingers, set to a backdrop of tense economic decline – was unprecedented. Argos, that obstinate burlesque tease of ‘one week only’ offers, reached breaking point. Less than seven days after a major publisher was pilloried for trying to …
Read More »Government forms games committee
The Government is to create an all-new ‘video games committee’ – in which cross-departmental representatives will be tasked with considering changes in policy to help the industry. The decision was a result of ELSPA’s first formal meeting with new Minister for Creative Industries Sin Simon last week. ELSPA director general …
Read More »Why you should attend Gamescom
The inaugural Gamescom this August is proving to be an ambitious event, supported by everyone who is anyone in the industry – and open to all. But don’t just take our word for it. Here, Oliver Kuhrt of organiser Koelnmesse runs through the plans for the event… In less than …
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