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MCV has today released the latest edition of Retail Biz, our weekly guide specifically for retailers and publishers. Published every Monday, the six-page supplement will be available both as a PDF to download or online at Issuu.com. Click here to download a PDF of MCV’s Retail Biz. Alternatively, click here …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Charts updated
The Sims 3 holds onto its number one position in the charts this week, which are viewable in full in MCV’s RETAIL BIZ section. CLICK HERE TO VISIT MCV’S COMPREHENSIVE, UP-TO-DATE MULTIFORMAT CHARTS PAGES. Covering all the major console and handheld formats, along with PC, the MCV charts have been …
Read More »Tories reach out to games industry
The Conservative Party’s Shadow Arts and Culture Minister has told MCV that he would be keen to set up a games industry equivalent of the UK Film Council should the party win power. Ed Vaizey also spoke of his desire to negotiate tax breaks for UK developers – but stopped …
Read More »And to the winner…
The answer is usually clear, based on the buzz around each company’s announcements, which of the three format holders made the biggest and best impression.This year I don’t think the decision is that simple… ‘SOFTLY ‘SOFTLYMicrosoft relied on wow factor to open the show. Nothing wrong with that; celebrity appearances, …
Read More »Trade rallies behind reborn E3
UK RETAIL HAS hailed E3 2009 a triumph, following a string of key announcements at last week’s show. Many major UK games retailers sent personnel to the LA event, and the trade was thrilled by the new products including Sony’s PSPgo, Microsoft’s Project Natal and Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus. It …
Read More »Getting better all the time
2007 was a shambles. 2008 was a disappointment. But 2009 saw E3 back with a vengeance – perfectly balanced between the huge scale the industry needed to show off, and a more personal focus. It will come as a huge relief to many in the industry that last week’s E3 …
Read More »Geoff Heath gets OBE
Geoff Heath has been named an Officer of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The former Climax chairman, Activision Europe founder and NCsoft man – who came to games in the 1980s after a career in the music business – was given the honour ‘for services to …
Read More »Gamescom ties MCV and Casualgaming.biz
New trade and consumer show Gamescom has appointed B2B leaders MCV and CasualGaming.biz as media partners. The event takes place in Cologne, starting with a trade-only day on Wednesday August 19th. An extra high circulation edition of MCV will be distributed in the Business Centre throughout the entire show, which …
Read More »E3 and the winner is…
Microsoft relied on wow factor to open the show. Nothing wrong with that; celebrity appearances, the long-expected reveal of a new peripheral and fanboy-pleaser Kojima are not to be sniffed at. However, already-established Rock Band aside, each of them (especially Natal, hidden behind closed doors) lacked any tangible product for …
Read More »Government ratings decision due next week
Labour will announce the new industry standard age classification system on Tuesday next week (June 16th) as part of its Digital Britain report, MCV can reveal. The news comes 12 months after the publication of the Government’s Byron Review, which recommended that the BBFC’s powers be increased in a hybrid …
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