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LEGO has fired Warner Bros into the UK’s ten best-selling publishers by units. The firm, which also publishes the hit Mortal Kombat and Batman games, has seen its position in the industry grow in recent years, thanks largely to the success of the LEGO games. There were seven LEGO titles …
Read More »Congress reignites attempts to make ESRB rating legal in US
A bill has been introduced to congress that would make ESRB ratings mandatory for video games. American lawmakers have been scrambling to introduce legistlation concerning violent video games since the Sandy Hook school shooting in December, calling for aditional research, tax penalties, and now legal ratings. H.R. 287, introduced by …
Read More »Could games publishers generate more brand equity?
Big games brands are known the world over, but do consumers know the firms behind them? Harris Interactive research director Lee Langford examines how brand awareness could help publishers… Many games franchises now easily outgross Hollywood movies so increasing media attention means that even members of the non-gaming fraternity, your …
Read More »President Obama orders research into links between video games and violence
Video games have again become central to America’s heated debate on gun ownership that erupted in the aftermath of December’s Newtown school shootings. President Obama yesterday revealed a 23-step plan designed to address America’s gun violence problem. And one of those steps is an order for the Center for Disease …
Read More »HMV demise could kill 4% of games market; High Street entertainment share would plummet
The cost to the UK video games market should HMV fail to find a buyer could be as little as four per cent. That’s thanks to HMV’s relatively small share of the UK games market. Nonetheless, its demise would theoretically leave the High Street with just a 16 per cent …
Read More »Revealed: 2012’s UK Top 100 Video Games
Just two physical games sold over 1m units in the UK last year, according toUKIE and GfK Chart-Track data. Call of Duty: Black Ops II and FIFA 13 were comfortably the No.1 and No.2 sellers last year. In contrast, there were five million sellers in the UK in 2011 – …
Read More »Yet another UK No.1 for FIFA 13
EA’s FIFA 13 has claimed its sixth No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It does so despite a 47 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2 retains second spot with sales falling 36 per cent. Much of the Top Ten remains …
Read More »Video games is the star in record year for Kickstarter
2012 was a fantastic year for crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, and video games have emerged as the big winner. A total of 18,000 projects were backed by 2.2m contributors in 2012, with video games winning the largest slice of pledges totalling $83m of the $320m total from 561,000 backers across 2,796 …
Read More »James Dyson criticises governmental focus on games
The glamour of web fads and video gaming is being put ahead of tangible technology that can be exported from the UK, Sir James Dyson has said. Speaking to theRadio Times, the British entrepreneur famous for inventing the Dyson vacuum cleaner said too much emphasis was being placed on sectors …
Read More »2013: What industry leaders want to see
MCVasks UK games industry experts about why 2013 will be much, much better than 2012. Christoph HartmannPresident, 2K2013 is set to be an exciting one for me personally, and for 2K. We kick off the year with the release of the eagerly anticipated BioShock Infinite in March. We can also …
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