MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
The last of Blockbuster’s UK stores will close next week, MCV can reveal. MCV reported last month that Blockbuster was due for total closure by December 20th and last week administrator Moorfields Corporate Recovery admitted that it had still not received any acceptable offers” and as a result we may …
Read More »Next Battlefield could be developed in the UK
Criterion tipped to be working on EA's flagship shooter series, Dead Space dev Visceral also rumoured
Read More »HTC One Mini banned in the UK
Retailers will not be permitted to sell the HTC One Mini smartphone as of this Friday (Dec 6th) in the UK. Nokia has triumphed in a patent dispute with rival HTC, ruling that the handset infringes some Nokia-owned patents. HTC had tried to argue that Nokia was not one of …
Read More »Over 80 UK game companies attend Game Connection Europe
And trade body UKIE has assisted more than 30 of them in travel and exhibition costs
Read More »Vita TV will take "a different road to market" in the West
Sony plans to take a very different approach to its streaming-centric Vita TV device when it eventually makes its way to Western markets. The microconsole has got off to a slow start in Japan with sales of just 42,000 units during its first week of release in November. It’s currently …
Read More »Battlefield 4 pips Call of Duty: Ghosts in first PS4 chart; FIFA 14 tops list
FIFA 14 has emerged as the third-party champion in Gfk Chart-Track’s first PS4 Top Ten. Sony’s Killzone: Shadow Fall is PS4’s No.1 (with an impressive attach rate, it seems) while FIFA 14 claimed No.2. However, arguably the biggest battle was between EA’s Battlefield 4 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts …
Read More »PS4 becomes fastest-selling console in UK history
Sony’s new home console beats eight-year record set by PSP
Read More »PS4 has sold over 250k in the UK
Over 250k PS4 consoles were sold in the UK in the machine’s first 48 hours on sale. Retail sources have confirmed the extent of PS4’s tremendous performance to MCV following Chart-Track’s confirmation this morning that PS4 is the UK’s fastest selling console ever. MCV estimates that UK PS4 sales reached …
Read More »PS4 beats Xbox One to fastest selling UK console ever crown
Sony’s PS4 is officially the fastest selling console in UK history. Gfk Chart-Track has confirmed that the machine has beaten PSP’s eight year-old sales record of 180k units sold in its first week. Xbox One sold 150k units in its first week. (Note that in both instances ‘week’ refers to …
Read More »Read our exclusive Phil Harrison interview on the future of Xbox inside the latest MCV
In this week’s issue of MCV, we talk to Microsoft’s corporate VP Phil Harrison about the launch of the Xbox One and what lies ahead in the next-gen. We also bid farewell to the now previous generation of consoles and take a look at some of the biggest event, scandals …
Read More »