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Every attendee at this month’s upcoming Monetising Mobile event will receive a report from MCV’S sister site ME. Called Mobile Payments 2011, it normally costs 39.99. Monetising Mobile: Exploring Opportunities in Mobile Payments is hosted Mobile Entertainment and takes place on Wednesday May 25th at BAFTA in London. That’s next …
Read More »Market Overview: Eastern Europe
This Eastern European games market is driven by the largest territory, Poland, which has shown good growth in previous years. 2010 saw a distinct market shift from PC to consoles. The PC market is not declining – just losing share. It has around a 70/30 share of unit sales. But …
Read More »Guitar Hero business ‘disbanded’
The reports are correct. There will be no more Guitar Hero games. "Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing’s Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011," a statement in Activision’s financial report, filed tonight, reveals. Earlier …
Read More »Profits up at Take-Two after solid Q3
Take-Two has posted better than expected results for the fiscal quarter ending December 31st 2010, with net profit up seven per cent year-on-year to $40.8m. Net revenue for the period was down seven per cent at $334.3m – though this is ahead of the $300m prediction. Year-to-date revenue stands at …
Read More »Investors buy into EA vision
Publisher EA has reported a net loss of $322m for its Q3 ending December 31st 2010 – a year-on-year increase of nearly 300 per cent. Revenues for the period were down 15 per cent at $1.05bn. However, adjusted non-GAAP numbers are more positive, showing almost a doubling of profits to …
Read More »Industry invited to Livingstone-Hope report launch
All those involved with the UK games industry have been invited to attend next week’s presentation of the Livingstone-Hope report. The skills review for the video games and visual effects sectors, based on input from the industries, along with universities and schools, promises to deliver a significant analysis of how …
Read More »Big launch night for Livingstone-Hope report
Ed Vaizey, Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope to speak at the launch of the major skills review of video games and visual effects
Read More »Japanese market declines 9% in 2010
Andriasang has got hold of Enterbrain’s annual Japanese video games market report, and it reveals another year of decline in the region. In total the market shrunk by nine per cent year-on-year in the last 12 months arching a total value of Y494bn (3.8bn). Hardware suffered the steepest decline, falling …
Read More »‘Games lose value quicker than cars’
"Brand new video games can lose as much value in percentage terms in just three days as a car would over three years" – that’s the eye-catching introduction to a report into the pre-owned games market by leading consumer watchdog Which? It claims that a Ford Focus loses around 60 …
Read More »Games account for just 3.3% of piracy
A report from torrent blog TorrentFreak suggests that video game piracy accounts for just 3.3 per cent of all illegally available online content. The site gathered data from thousands of BitTorrent trackers to take s snapshot of what it estimated to be all publicly available torrents at the time. Out …
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