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Midway has announced Ubisoft will be publishing its upcoming title The Wheelman. The troubled publisher has entered into a strategic relationship with its France-based rival in order to bring The Wheelman, an action driving game featuring Hollywood talent Vin Diesel, to all major territories. Ubisoft will handle sales, marketing and …
Read More »Mass Effect added to Classic collection
Mass Effect is set to become the latest addition to Microsoft’s Classics range for Xbox 360 on March 20th. ShopTo has revealed a two-disc edition of the sci-fi RPG will be retail at 19.99 and features a wealth of additional content, according to Eurogamer. Extras will include the Bring Down …
Read More »London retail buoyant in January
Not long after promising news about the not as bad as expected January on the UK High Street, it has now emerged that London retailers saw a sharp increase in trade last month. Retail Week reports that like-for-like sales in the capital last month were 6.5 per cent up on …
Read More »US: Sony to close Metreon PlayStation Store
Sony has decided not to renew the leases on the PlayStation Store and Sony Style outlets in San Francisco’s Metreon Shopping Center. The 350,000 square foot PlayStation store was originally opened in June 1999 and has hosted the West Coast launches for Sony’s flagship products, including the PS2, PSP and …
Read More »DS and Wii publishers scramble for shelf space
A slew of Wii and DS software will fail to make it to store shelves as retailers are forced to be more selective with the games they stock, MCV can reveal. The news follows a Christmas that featured an unprecedented amount of new software for all formats, with publishers moving …
Read More »66% of UK shoppers wont head online
A new survey from chart body GfK has claimed that 66 per cent of UK shoppers remain unwilling to shop online due to fears relating to cyber crime and security theft. According to survey respondents, the most common source of information about the safety of online shopping is stories in …
Read More »US: $823 million spent on games marketing in 2008
Research from the Nielsen Company and the Monitor-Plus advertising monitoring service showed that the games industry reportedly spent $823 million on marketing and promotion in the US during 2008. The $823 million spent amounts to less than four per cent of the industry’s total revenue of $21 billion in 2008, …
Read More »January retail figures give room for optimism
The retail figures for January are in and paint a mixed picture, with the good news of an overall like-for-like increase of 1.1 per cent in sales muddied by news that non-food sales slipped 1.6 per cent. Retail Week reports that BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor numbers showed a total sales …
Read More »AUSTRALIA: Capcom signs THQ distribution deal
Capcom has confirmed that it has chosen THQ as its new distribution partner in Australia and New Zealand. The news comes following the closure of Australian distributor Red Ant after it went into administration. At the time, Red Ant’s key clients Capcom and Konami said they were confident a means …
Read More »WH Smith to ditch games… but will anyone notice?
The ghost of EUK is still haunting the High Street – with WH Smith this week telling MCV that it is to ditch entertainment products – but it seems there have never been more opportunities for games companies to take advantage of new routes to market. WH Smith, one of …
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