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Over 600 retailers, media, publishers, developers, analysts and distributors jammed into The Brewery in London tonight to see over 40 different companies fight it out for the ultimate recognition from customers, rivals and partners at the MCV Awards 09. Nintendo was once again the biggest winner on the night, picking …
Read More »Trade prepares for tonight’s MCV Awards
Nearly 40 companies are set to fight it out for the big prizes at tonight’s games industry’s trade awards at The Brewery, London. Over 600 trade execs are expected to attend the Awards, which kick off at 6pm with pre-drinks from sponsors Codemasters and Gem. Attendees will then be invited …
Read More »Codemasters unveils F1 line-up
F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton will make his video game debut this autumn, MCV can reveal. Codemasters will launch F1 2009 for PSP and Wii this year, which will feature official tracks, cars, teams and drivers, including Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel – and UK world champion Hamilton. This will be …
Read More »iPhone lifts Apple profits
Apple posted unexpectedly successful quarterly results yesterday in the face of tight economic times. Net profit had reached $1.21bn during the quarter; a notable rise from the $1.05bn attained in the same three-month period last year. Sales were also uncharacteristically up for a sector looking down, jumping 8.7 per cent …
Read More »Budget 2009: Govt has failed to back the games industry
Games industry group Tiga has slammed the Labour government for failing again to back one of the principal creative industries of the future.” In his Budget speech, delivered on Wednesday in the House of Commons, Alistair Darling failed to materialise any of the promises that Tiga was looking for. Speaking …
Read More »EA Sports transformed by online play
EA is flaunting the popularity of its online game services by announcing that its Sports label has clocked 500m online games since June last year. EA says that an average of 2.2 million online games have been played each day since June; when the publisher first started releasing its 2009 …
Read More »Nintendo unleashes campaign to lure consumers online
Nintendo has launched a major new advertising campaign designed to encourage UK Wii owners to use the console’s online services. The eight-week promotion comes under the tagline ‘Get it online’, and shows mainstream gamers how to connect their Wi-Fi-enabled console to the internet. The promotion has been seen as a …
Read More »Budget 2009: Economy turnaround by 2010
A daring and contentious budget speech by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling was punctuated with an interesting promise: the UK economy is set to grow at the start of next year. Speaking in the Commons, Darling said that GDP will grow 1.25 per cent by 2010 and climb …
Read More »12 more Woolies stores snapped up
Value retail chain Poundland has today announced that it has purchased 12 ex-Woolworths stores. One hundred former Woolies staff have been taken on by the firm following the buy, which forms part of Poundland’s planned expansion. The retailer is committed to opening at least 30 new stores in the UK …
Read More »Win big at MCV Awards with GamesAid
The games industry’s charity is hoping to raise both its profile and much-needed funds at this week’s MCV Awards in London. Up for grabs are a PlayStation 3 with SingStar Queen, a Nintendo DSi console, a Logitech Pure-Fi Dream speaker dock, a Logitech HD Powerline kit and 500Gb media server …
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