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UKIE’s new boss Jo Twist has pledged to ‘change the tone’ of the trade body. The former Channel 4 and BBC exec has laid out her immediate strategy for UKIE, which includes making it relevant to small digital creative businesses and developers, promoting the industry to future talent and launching …
Read More »UKIE to fund student trips to Blitz
Open days to give visitors new insights into studio work
Read More »First ever digital PC chart scheduled
Trade group UKIE pledges to push ahead with PSN and Xbox Live charts
Read More »UKIE: Digital Chart coming February
Industry body UKIE has announced a digital chart for PC games will be published next month, two years after it began the project. It’s the first measure of downloadable video game sales and UKIE says it will be continually improved in the months ahead. The basic PC chart – which …
Read More »UKIE sells stake in Chart-Track
UK trade body UKIE has sold its stake in charts body GfK Chart-Track – but still has a deal for exclusive access to its data. The organisation’s 20 per cent has been sold to GfK, which already had the majority ownership of Chart-Track since 2008. UKIE this afternoon told MCV …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market shrinks by a third
It wasn’t a great week for UK games retail, with the market shrinking by a third. 14m was generated from game sales overall which is almost 7m less than last week’s 20.9m With no new big releases hitting shelves for the week ending January 14th, the number of units sold …
Read More »Nationwide piracy debate to be hosted by UKIE
Trade body to explore ways of 'positively' cutting down on rampant illegal file-sharing in response to SOPA
Read More »Hopes high for official PSN and XBLA game charts
Digital download data could soon open up
Read More »ANALYSIS: Digital Charts
MCV wants a digital download chart. First and foremost to prevent industry veterans like Geoff Heath saying things like this: I look at my MCV once a week and I see the size of the market in there, and I can’t resist a wry smile, because what’s covered in there …
Read More »Digital omission threatening chart legitimacy
As was reported yesterday, end of year trading figures show a gaping 100m hole in the UK games retail market for 2011. According to GfK Chart-Track data, UK games retailers sold 55.4m games during 2011, almost 12 per cent down year-on-year. In terms of revenue, UK retailers made 1.42bn from …
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