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Entertainment behemoth Disney has hinted at a move away from console gaming as the firm looks to the growth being enjoyed in the social and mobile game sectors. The business’ Interactive Media division has just reported a loss of $234m for the fiscal year ending October 2nd – a slight …
Read More »OPINION: Kinecting with the market
We’re here for you, the reader. Any publication or website is. Without readers we die, and if at any time we forget that we’re here to serve you then that’s when the proverbial muck hits the fan. But the relationship between a publication, and more specifically a writer, and its …
Read More »Richard Keith forms Games Tribe
Erstwhile Future publisher Richard Keith has set up a new online games media company, called The Games Tribe. Launching in the first week of October it will be, in part but not only, an aggregation hub for a range of niche sites. Some will be existing, low budget outfits that …
Read More »The changing face of games media
The constant state of evolution within the gaming press is precisely what makes it such an exciting area of the market to be involved with. Looking back at the last few years, the changes in the media landscape have been swift and extraordinary. The social network explosion of Facebook and …
Read More »Online games dominate UK media usage
39 per cent of UK internet users now play online games, making it the most popular form of media consumption in the country, according to a new Ofcom report entitled ‘The Communications Market 2010 (August)’. That figure is up one per cent on Q1 2009 and takes online gaming ahead …
Read More »Gibeau questions MOH media row
Publishing empire EA says it will not surrender its creative vision to the furore surrounding the upcoming Medal of Honor game. EA Games president Frank Gibeau told Develop the game is a creative risk”. He said he anticipated controversy, and he asked why films are immune to the denigration games …
Read More »Futures Q3 revenue up 2%
Media group Future has reported what it describes as an encouraging” two per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for its 2010 Q3. Year-to-date revenues for the group are down three per cent however, though this compares favourably with the five per cent dip seen in the first half of the …
Read More »Physical still dwarfing digital sales
A new study entitled ‘The D2 Report: Discs & Digital – The Business of Home Entertainment Retailing’ from the Entertainment Merchants Association claims that traditional boxed product still accounts for the vast bulk of sales in the video games market. It claims that combined DVD and Blu-ray sales totalled $17.9bn …
Read More »MCV goes big at Gamescom
Trade leader MCV has unveiled plans for its biggest ever presence at Gamescom in Cologne. As part of a special agreement between Europe’s biggest trade news source and the premier games show, MCV will be distributing an extra high circulation print edition, whilst also running a dedicated online newswire. The …
Read More »OnLive hitting all UK ISPs
Streaming games service OnLive will be available over any UK ISP, founder and CEO Steve Perlman has confirmed. BT’s deal with the firm, which will see the UK telcoms firm investing in the games service, grants it exclusive rights to bundle OnLive with their broadband service, but non-BT customers will …
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