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A Union Jack style Xbox 360 S Kinect bundle with two games has appeared on Amazon.co.uk. UPDATE: The listing has now been removed. The Amazon product page described the bundle as the Xbox 360 S 4GB Celebration Pack, which is priced at 249.99 and includes the Kinect motion accessory. The …
Read More »FEATURE: UK’s Top Ten single SKUs of all time
Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch reveals the Top Ten games on single platforms, in terms of both unit sales and revenue, and takes a look at how controller sales have altered since 2007… Basic analysis on Chart-Track’s CUBE online data warehouse solution could start with a simple list of best-sellers, either …
Read More »No Amazon UK game downloads this year
Amazon’s PC game download store has suffered a new delay, say publishers. The service is now expected to launch next year. MCV understands the service – which has been live in the US for some time – was originally due for a UK soft launch in April 2011. Publishers now …
Read More »The UK suffers double-dip recession
It has finally been confirmed that the UK has once again entered into recession. The Office of National Statistics has confirmed the double-dip recession this morning, delivering a blow to the austerity-led coalition government whose main task when entering Government was to stabilise the country’s economy. The economy officially shrank …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Witcher 2 debuts at No.1
Namco Bandai’s once PC-only RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition is the new UK No.1. It’s the only new release to enter the UKIE GfK Chart-Track Top 40 this week. The Xbox 360 version accounted for 98 per cent of physical sales, with PC claiming the remainder. …
Read More »Games and consoles TV advertising at five-year low?
This week we review the current state of the games and consoles TV advertising market in 2012 so far, in comparison to the previous five years. The lines represent TV activity, benchmarked against 2008. The bars represent the year-on-year percentage change in activity (2012 vs 2011).The analysis does not make …
Read More »Japanese publisher Marvelous opens UK studio
Kent-based company to focus on social and mobile gaming
Read More »Microsoft reports UK growth for Xbox Live
Paid-for Xbox Live games and content are enjoying good growth” in the UK year-on-year, says Microsoft. In an interview with MCV, Xbox Live’s UK product manager Pav Bhardwaj said this includes Arcade releases, Games on Demand titles and extra add-on content. We don’t have any particular numbers as such, but …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Pav Bhardwaj, Xbox Live UK
Microsoft’s Xbox Live UK product manager talks Minecraft, Arcade Next and the future of the Xbox 360 online platform. Tell us about the Arcade Next promotion – why group a bunch of new games under that tagline? How effective have past promotions been? Yeah I think we’ve been quite fortunate. …
Read More »Tesco posts first UK profit decline for 20 years
It may be the biggest and most important retailer in the UK, but supermarket giant Tesco has posted its first fall in UK profits for 20 years. Profits at its UK arm fell one per cent to 2.5bn for the year ending February 25th. UK sales fell 1.2 per cent …
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