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We still don’t know if Grand Theft Auto V will make it to retail in time for Christmas, but even Rockstar’s mammoth IP is unlikely to prevent a year of decline in the traditional markets. Venturebeat reports that analysts predict the release of the game could generate in the region …
Read More »UK CHARTS: LEGO Batman 2 makes it three in a row
It’s three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for Warner Interactive’s LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. Hot on its heels, though, is Sega’s London 2012: The Official Video Game, which enjoys a sales jump of 81 per cent to climb …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Digital pressure on retail
Laurie Krohn, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, outlines pressures on the boxed games industry and looks at what the future might hold.. It’s fair to say that things are pretty tough in the world of boxed games – the value of the market has declined by 12.1 per cent …
Read More »Kid’s BAFTAs welcomes gaming nominations
BAFTA has appealed for nominations for the Video Game category in this year’s 2012 British Academy Children’s Awards. Former winners in the category include LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (2011), Rabbids Go Home (2010) and LittleBigPlanet (2009). Other categories include Animation, Channel of the Year, Feature Film, Independent Production Company …
Read More »One week to go until Games Britannia
There’s just a week to go until the Games Britannia education and careers festival, which brings together the industry with youngsters and educators with a view to enthuse the next generation of games sector talent. The UK event kicks off with a special keynote and opening event lead by Eidos …
Read More »UKIE rallies around tax breaks for developers
UK trade body UKIE has called on the games industry for input for a collective response to the government’s new period of consultation on tax breaks policy. The UK Treasurytoday opened a period of consultationwith a view to finalising the details of the proposed Tax Breaks policy. "UKIE’s consultation programme …
Read More »UK games retail sales down 38% in May
The tough times continue for UK games retail, with the latest Chart-Track data showing the market fell 38 per cent last month. 1.8m games were sold in May, generating 45.5m. Both of those figures are almost 40 per cent down compared with the same period in 2011. For the third …
Read More »OPINION: Crystal Dynamics embroiled in Tomb Raider ‘rape’ controversy
The maker of the new Tomb Raider has distanced itself from the use of the word ‘rape’ to describe an incident in the new adventure title. In last week’s E3 trailer for the game, protagonist Lara Croft is forced to endure sexual advances from her captor. When things get physical …
Read More »Digital predicted to account for 66% of market by 2017
A new report from DFC Intelligence predicts that digitally distributed games will account for 66 per cent of total overall games revenue by 2017. It also predicts a significant expansion in the overall games software market, which it believes will grow from $52m now to $70bn in five years. Interestingly, …
Read More »OPINION: The digital debate
Once again the issue around calculating digital sales data towards the industry’s charts and research data has become a talking point. Last week MCV discussed the suggestion that Blizzard’s Diablo III would have topped the charts if digital sales from Blizzard’s Battle.net store had been included in retail charts. GfK …
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