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High Street giant GAME says it will reach out to software-starved consumers with a series of major events this summer. The firm responded to MCV’s story last week about a lack of games coming out over the next four months. It said it would work ‘smarter’ to entice consumers, before …
Read More »The Death of TV Advertising
There was a time when you couldn’t flick on Coronation Street without seeing Ant and Dec prance about on a Wii Fit Balance Board. If a game was worth stocking, it had a TV ad. And there were hundreds of them, often found alongside big football matches orThe X Factor. …
Read More »Scottish Police chief blames violent games for teenage stabbing
A knife attack in Clydebank has been blamed on the offender’s access to violent video games. The games-loving Daily Mail reports that an unnamed 13-year-old (who is apparently already a father) slashed the throat of a 14-year-old friend whom he met via Gears of War 3 online. The victim reportedly …
Read More »Osborne undeterred by Europe scrutiny of UK games tax breaks
UK Chancellor George Osborne and Culture minister Ed Vaizey said that an EC investigation will not stop games tax breaks. The pair were speaking at a special British Film Commission event for the launch of creative sector tax breaks for TV and animation. While TV and animation legislation is being …
Read More »OPINION: Keep faith while the release schedule hibernates
That long wait for GTA V is going to seem quite painful. While it’s worth paying some lip service to the few tent-poles the games industry will offer up this summer – The Last of Us, Splinter Cell, and Nintendo’s 3DS range – there’s no denying that the months ahead …
Read More »Are we ready for the biggest video games drought ever?
Fewer video games were sold than ever last week, as the release schedule dries up. Retailers shifted just 332,338 games over the last seven days, generating 8m in revenue. But the worse is still to come, say analysts. In fact, UK retailers told MCV this week they don’t expect the …
Read More »White Room signs merchandise deals
Retailers can shortly order video game clothes and toys via UK firm White Room Games. White Room has signed sales and distribution partnership with both Gaya Entertainment and Level Up Wear, adding products from publishers such as Activision, Bethesda, Capcom, EA, Sony and Ubisoft to its portfolio. Gaya Entertainment specialises …
Read More »Amazon boosts its entertainment market share as GAME drops 3%
Supermarkets and Amazon have boosted their entertainment market share at the expense of GAME and HMV. Kantar Worldpanel’s Entertainment Retailer Barometer report states that Amazon made the biggest market share gains for the 12 weeks ending March 17th 2013. The numbers include sales of physical video games, games and digital …
Read More »FIFA wants Call of Duty’s No.1 crown
Watch out Call of Duty – EA believes FIFA 14 could be the best selling game of the year. The upcoming soccer sequel was unveiled to the press at a special event in Guildford last week. It boasts a number of new features, which EA believes will fire the game …
Read More »US games market falls 10% in March
Hit releases such as BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider were sadly unable to stop another month of annual decline in the US video games market. Total video games industry sales declined ten per cent year-on-year to $1.9bn, Gamasutra reports. That is of course an improvement on February’s 25 per cent …
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