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SCEE president David Reeves has told MCV that Sony currently has no plans for a ‘PSP2′. The exec moved to debunk web reports which earlier this month claimed the firm had signed a memory chip deal for the device. No, there are currently no plans for a PSP2. I go …
Read More »Tesco launches half-price sale
Tesco will tomorrow launch a half-price sale that will last throughout Christmas – but has told MCV that the promotion is not in reaction to Woolworths’ ‘fire sale’ . The firm will cut prices on around 1,000 products from now until Christmas – including non-food. The focus is firmly on …
Read More »MCV Retail Survey 2008: Part Two
What title will be the 2008 Christmas No.1?Call of Duty 56%FIFA 09 13%Need For Speed 8%Professor Layton 7%Gears of War 2 5%Wii Fit 4% Well over half the retailers surveyed backed Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War as the game likely to grab the title of 2008’s Christmas …
Read More »MCV Retail Survey 2008: Part One
MCV has conducted its annual nationwide survey of games retail – and the results are in. The following is based on in-depth research, featuring responses from a wide variety of UK retail store managers from the likes of GAME, Blockbuster, HMV, Gamestation and a range of independent stores…. What has …
Read More »HMV reports £19.8 million six-month loss
The HMV Group has revealed its financial results for the six months ending October 25th, reporting a post-tax loss of 19.8 million. The entertainment group – which also includes book specialist Waterstones – revealed that sales were up 3.5 per cent, but like-for-like sales had fallen flat. Like-for-like sales at …
Read More »Ubisoft bids for three new acqusition targets
Ubisoft is in negotiations to buy three separate games firms for approximately €5 million each. And the French publisher was even keen on buying US studio Cryptic, which was this week purchased by Atari. Speaking at the UBS Annual Global Media Conference Ubisoft CFO Alain Martinez said: "We have about …
Read More »Trouvain quits Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard will lose its European boss in the spring, after two years of impressive turnaround. Joerg Trouvain is returning home at the end of March to be closer to his family, switching to a CEO role at German online travel company HolidayCheck. After a role as boss of EA …
Read More »New categories announced for MCV Awards 09
New retail and marketing categories are being introduced to the MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Although the total number of awards on the evening will remain at 17, the retail section has been almost entirely overhauled. Every retailer, whatever size or product specialism, can now compete for all five prizes. There …
Read More »DS breaks UK hardware sales record
Nintendo’s DS Lite has broken the all-time weekly sales record for hardware in the UK, MCV can reveal. ELSPA/GFK-ChartTrack figures show that the console broke the record in week ending December 6th (week 49). The system surpassed its own record to claim the achievement. And GFK-ChartTrack has predicted that the …
Read More »GTA IV gives franchise highest ever software tie ratio
Take-Two chair Strauss Zelnick has revealed that the software tie ratio for Grand Theft Auto IV is the highest it has ever been” for the franchise, reports Edge . Speaking at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, and citing US NPD sales data through early October 2008, he revealed …
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