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Digital games retailer Green Man Gaming says it could begin publishing games later this year. CEO Paul Sulyok told MCV’s sister publication PCR that becoming a publisher was certainly something we’d consider in 2014”. He added that if the firm did opt to publish its own titles, it would stray …
Read More »"We don’t need publishers in a traditional sense": The new age of publishing
Why do we need games publishers? In today’s digital market, the game makers and their fans are running the show. Community managers on Twitter and Facebook are doing the jobs of PRs, video bloggers via YouTube are doing a better job of marketing games than any carefully constructed TV ad, …
Read More »Read our exclusive interview with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick in the latest MCV
From the battle between GAME and CEX, to Evolve-maker Turtle Rock going it along without Valve, we’ve got it all covered in the latest MCV. We kick off the issue with a battle of the CEXes. The High Street’s two biggest games retailers are clashing head-to-head as GAME launches its …
Read More »How Midnight City is establishing itself as the ‘record label’ of indie publishing
VP Casey Lynch explains how the Majesco-owned firm differs from traditional publishers
Read More »EA wants in on Amazon, Google and Apple consoles
Expect any future consoles from Amazon, Google or Apple to feature EA games from the off. Describing itself as a platform-agnostic company”, EA CEO Andrew Wilson has said that the publisher is interested in any potential under-the-TV Android or iOS console offerings. Every time there are new ways and opportunities …
Read More »$308m loss for EA in Q3
EA has reported a $308m GAAP net loss for the quarter ending December 31st – a big decline on the $45m loss reported in the same quarter last year. Revenue fell $112m to $808m. Digital revenue climbed from $321, to $410m but packaged goods revenue fell from $568m to $370m. …
Read More »And the Crackdown 3 announcement is… an indie publishing deal between Ruffian and Square Enix
Been looking forward to a Crackdown 3 announcement today? Stand down people, stand down. While the stars had seemingly aligned for a Crackdown 3 reveal this afternoon, it turns out that Microsoft’s news was the acquisition of the Gears of War IP. And Ruffian’s news? It has teamed up with …
Read More »Chillingo on surviving the brutal world of mobile publishing
Chillingo is one of EA’s forgotten divisions. The mobile games publisher famed for launching Angry Birds and Cut the Rope into the world works behind the scenes, hunting out the next big mobile game and helping its developers to launch it. It doesn’t own the games it releases. It’s a …
Read More »DayZ success should serve as a warning for publishers, Hall claims
Traditional publishers should be worried by the phenomenal success of DayZ, creator Dean Hall has warned. It was announced earlier today that the game has now sold 1m copies in under a month – a fact Hall described to Polygon as a ‘shots fired’ moment for those in the traditional …
Read More »Nial Ferguson becomes MD of Future UK
Future UK has appointed former tech and games boss Nial Ferguson as its new managing director. Media Week reports that the appointment of Ferguson, who was made managing director of its games, technology and film divisions in July 2012, is said to be the next stage of the reorganisation of …
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