Tag Archives: video games

This Eastern European games market is driven by the largest territory, Poland, which has shown good growth in previous years. 2010 saw a distinct market shift from PC to consoles. The PC market is not declining – just losing share. It has around a 70/30 share of unit sales. But …

UK video games retailer GAME has begun offering pre-orders for pre-owned versions of the latest titles, MCV understands. It’s the first time that a UK retailer has allowed customers to pre-order a used version of a game before its released on the High Street. News of the offer has cropped …

Recruitment agency Austin Banks has branched out into the games industry. The Doncaster-based firm is currently restructuring its business, and a focus on video games will be crucial to the company’s future. We are moving away from local, support-level recruitment and into national, executive-level recruitment within clearly defined niches – …

The accessories market has a new leader in the form of Gioteck. The company doubled its market share last month and became the No.1 third-party peripherals brand in terms of unit sales, according to GfK Chart-Track. Gioteck achieved year-on-year growth of 19.2 per cent in terms of January unit sales …

I remember visiting Best Buy at the launch of its first UK store. There was an excited buzz about the place. This was a retailer that was to open ‘spectacular’ stores the likes of which us Brits have never seen. It would ‘revolutionise’ the way we bought tech, service us …

The global PC games market has shown growth in through 2010 to reach a record $16.2bn in value, according to PC Gaming Alliance’s third annual Horizons research report. This was a growth of 20 per cent on 2009. None of the geographical market segments tracked showed a decline in 2010 …

The minds behind European trade show Gamescom want to branch out and make the event even more appealing to international firms. Gamescom 2011 will be held at Cologne’s Koelnmesse this August and has already received exhibitor registrations from the US, Canada, Korea, the UK, France, Switzerland, Poland and the Netherlands …

The society that charges retailers to play music in their stores has decided to lower its price for video game demos. High Street stores are now required to pay just 75.90 a year – a far cry from the 140.90 to 465.90 (depending on store size) quoted earlier this month. …

It has emerged this afternoon that despite repeated calls for a union between the UK’s two video games trade bodies, developer organisation Tiga has outright abandoned any chance of the proposal. Furthermore, Tiga has issued a stark reply to those calling for a single organisation, claiming that "Tiga is that …

Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Iain Lee, Chris Moyles, Snoop Dogg – the list of celebrities who openly express their love for gaming is consistently growing. But aside from Charlie "the games journo who done good" Brooker we’ve for years been desperately short of respected TV faces with the capacity and …