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UK indie ShopTo.net has hired SEO fire in a bid to double its online revenue. The specialist search and social marketing firm is run by retail veteran Gian Luzio. This year is key to ShopTo.net’s growth as both Microsoft and Sony look to announce the next generation of games consoles,”?said …
Read More »Turtle Beach on top in UK and US
Headset specialist Turtle Beach became the UK’s top-selling peripherals firm of 2011 in terms of value. It was beaten only by format holders Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, making it the leading third-party. Turtle Beach, which manufactures popular headsets under the same name, was also ranked No.1 for headset sales in …
Read More »MCV’s Daily Must Reads (Jan 25th 2012)
Here at MCVuk.com we spend all day reading the internet. Hundreds of sites. Millions of words. But if we were to recommend, say, five stories to read, what would they be? Funny you should ask that, because they would be these: Interview: GAME and the state of retail (Spong) Much …
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 »ANALYSIS: Retail veterans under pressure
We’ve been down this road before. Another bleak set of retailer financials, another article in MCV wondering what can be done about it. But now the situation has become more pressured. GAME posted devastating festive results, with sales down 17.6 per across UK and Ireland. While over at HMV, the …
Read More »Games to feature in Junior Design Awards 2012
This year’s Junior Design Awards 2012 will for the first time recognise video games and their importance in the lives of families and children. Three new categories are debuting in the 2012 event – Best Console/Handheld Game, Best Family Video Game and Best Children’s App. Judges will be selecting the …
Read More »11 publishers accused of pursuing torrenting settlements
The names of nine publishers have been released in conjunction with claims that a fresh spate of anti-piracy lawsuits has emerged across Europe. The practise, which has been bullied out of court on numerous occasions, sees publishers contacting internet users with claims that their IP address has been used to …
Read More »"Pre-owned is pushing devs into digital"
Game publishing and development firms are finding sanctuary in digital distribution platforms because boxed retail is dependent on pre-owned sales schemes, industry veteran David Perry has said. Speaking today at the Cloud Gaming Europe event in London, Perry said companies like Gamestop are getting so good at selling used games, …
Read More »Gaming greats head to Toy Fair
The biggest brands in gaming will battle for the limelight at this month’s toy industry trade show. Toy Fair 2012 will take place at Olympia, London from January 24th to January 26th, and exhibitors are using game-based products to draw in the crowds. GB Eye will show off their latest …
Read More »Deus Ex tops Amazon’s 2011 digital chart
Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the most purchased digital video game on Amazon in the US in 2011. Interestingly, however, the game doesn’t even feature in the Top Ten of the physical games chart for the period. Joystiq reports that Modern Warfare 3 unsurprisingly won that particular race …
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