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Square Enix action title Sleeping Dogs has pipped Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros 2 to become this week’s Uk No.1. The pair’s success comes as the lessening of Olympic fever sees Sega’s duo of London 2012: The Official Video Game and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games …
Read More »ReVITAlised: Sony spending more on Xmas marketing than at launch
Sony used its Gamescom press conference to effectively relaunch its Vita handheld for Christmas. And as part of the revamp, it will spend more money on marketing Vita this Q4 than it did over the platform’s launch earlier this year.To improve the console’s slow sales the platform holder will launch …
Read More »OPINION: New Super Mario Bros 2 is great. And it’s £39.99
This Friday is an historic one for Nintendo. The launch of New Super Mario Bros 2 marks not only the end of the barren summer (along with Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs) but also the launch of the ‘New Nintendo’. That’s because the game will be the first to be launched …
Read More »Champions and heroes halt UK video games market collapse
UK games retail was rescued by the biggest licences in movies and sport last month, as it struggles through one of the weakest summer of sales in the industry’s history. Physical game sales were down 29.2 per cent year-on-year last month, with just 1.65m games sold, according to UKIE GfK/Chart-Track. …
Read More »UK games market reaches lowest ebb
Olympics fever was good news for publishers of Olympic-based games, but it wasn’t enough to save the UK games market from its worst performance ever last week. UKIE/Chart-Track data reveals that the total value of the physical UK games market for the week ending July 28th 2012 was 8.40m – …
Read More »Konami moves European HQ to the UK
Publisher to leave Germany home in April 2013
Read More »Konami moves Euro HQ to UK
Konami will merge its European operations and form a new UK HQ, leaving its base in Germany. It is a part of a significant overhaul of the firm’s European operations, which sees the Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH merge with Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. The firm will operate under the B.V. …
Read More »EA appoints new PR agency for Games Label
Publisher EA has appointed PrettyGreen as its retained UK PR agency. PR Week reports that PrettyGreen will manage both the EA Games Label and EA Maxis. It will oversee the launches of games such as Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and The Sims 3: Supernatural. We …
Read More »UK chancellor lauds British video games excellence
'The Government is determined to make this country the technology centre of Europe'
Read More »UPDATED: 3DS XL registers decent launch sales in UK and Japan
The launch of the 3DS XL is pivotal to the future fortunes of the Nintendo 3DS and early sales numbers for the handheld are encouraging. Although Nintendo has not released concrete sales numbers for the UK, Games Industry reports that the machine sold a little shy of five figures” (as …
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