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HMV is reducing the amount of high-end technology it sells, the retailer has told MCV’s sister site PCR. HMV director Steve West revealed that the firm has cut back on selling items such as tablets to make way for products which our customers more readily associate with the HMV brand” …
Read More »UK back in charge as BBC Worldwide kills LA video games division
BBC Worldwide has regenerated its video game plan… again. The commercial arm of the BBC has closed its games department in Los Angeles and moved it back to Britain to merge with the UK Consumer Products division. Digital entertainment and games director Rikesh Desai will lead a team that includes …
Read More »Triple-A game sales will recover when next-gen launches, says EA
Publisher EA has dismissed concerns over falling sales of this year’s biggest games. Battlefield 4, Assassin’s Creed IV, Call of Duty: Ghosts and, to a lesser extent, FIFA 14, have all suffered steep declines in sales over their predecessors. But EA Studios EVP Patrick Soderlund says the difficult few weeks …
Read More »‘Lack of digital data is putting off investors’
Venture capitalists view investing in the digital games market as a throw of the dice”, says former Sega boss Mike Hayes. Hayes joined investment firm Mercia Fund Management in September with a remit to identify potential video game companies to invest in. And he admitted to MCV that the lack …
Read More »GAME selling ‘Epic Adventure’ gaming holiday
For 5,500 consumers can now buy an altogether different video gaming collectible from UK retail GAME. The chain has teamed up with STA Travel to offer ‘The Epic Gaming Adventure’, a four-week holiday visiting 13 different cities all of which are historically significant to the history of video games. Described …
Read More »Doctor Who 50th Anniversary title materialises
November is a busy month for the Doctor, but the Time Lord will still be putting in an appearance in the video games market. The BBC has announcedvia Twitterthat a new Doctor Who title will be released for iOS and Android "soon" – no doubt in time for the series’ …
Read More »Rough waters: The next-generation transition
We all expected sales of Assassin’s Creed IV and Battlefield 4 to be down. After all, this is only ‘part one’ of their launches. Both games will return, looking better than ever, on Xbox One and PS4 at the end of the month. But judging this transition is tricky. The …
Read More »VIDEO: Here’s GAME’s 2013 UK Christmas TV ad
This is the GAME Christmas TV ad that UK folk are going to be seeing on their sets this year. It revolves around the idea of a mum being asked for a Christmas present from her son. However, everything he says is completely indecipherable to her. She then wonders into …
Read More »William Hill slashes odds on Call of Duty: Ghosts for Christmas No.1
Call of Duty: Ghosts has been installed as the odds-on favourite to be this year’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK Christmas No.1. William Hill is offering 1/5 on the game, which arrives in the UK today but will be boosted by next-gen launches on Xbox One and PS4 on November 22nd …
Read More »Tiger Woods already negotiating video games return
The Tiger Woods brand could return to a video game near you sooner than you think. EA announced earlier this week that it had reached a mutual decision” with Woods to end his run of appearances on the cover of its PGA Tour Golf series. Now the golfer’s agent Mark …
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