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An ambitious online games retailer believes it will be able to steal considerable” market share from Amazon, Play.com and ShopTo.net this Christmas after a major investment in its site. GameGears.co.uk is eyeing a 2 million turnover for the next calendar year, after striking deals with publishers such as Activision for …
Read More »Nickelodeon buys TMNT rights
Viacom’s global kids entertainment network Nickelodeon has paid 5.9m to capture the worldwide rights to the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brand from The Mirage Group. The firm has pledged to continue working with many of the Turtles’ existing licensing partners, though question marks remain over the long-term future of …
Read More »Transmission Games closes doors
Melbourne-based Transmission Games has closed, according to new reports. The studio, which earlier this month shed some 30 staff from its coding and QA teams to cut costs, had reportedly experienced a number of problems with payments from publishers and cancelled projects. Head over to Develop for the full story.
Read More »GAME plots further exclusives
GAME Group has pledged that it will keep securing exclusive products, after grabbing the rights to the limited edition Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360. The console joins a raft of GAME-exclusives this Christmas, which includes the special edition of Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, the Assassin’s Creed II …
Read More »NPD: DS top but PS3 and 360 impress
The mighty DS once again emerged as the best selling console in North America for the month of September, but the numbers gave each platform holder a chance to celebrate. DS was the best selling machine for the sixth month on the trot with sales of 524k, though this was …
Read More »NPD: Halo ODST flattens the competition
Even Nintendo’s perennially popular offerings were not enough to challenge Halo 3: ODST’s dominance in the North American September software battle, with Microsoft’s shooter drastically out performing all of its rivals. NPD reports that Bungie’s Master Chief-free FPS shifted 1.5m units in the period, way ahead of its closest rival …
Read More »NPD: Gaming finally on the up
After what seems like a prolonged period of decline in the North American video games market, the latest numbers from sales tracker NPD show that the sector enjoyed year-on-year growth in September. In fact, September 2009 was the second biggest September the NPD has ever recorded, beaten only by September …
Read More »P2 readies for Tracy Beaker release
P2 Games has teamed up with publisher Random House and supermarket chain Morrisons for its upcoming Tracy Beaker video game. The title will be advertised in 100,000 Tracy Beaker reprints, as well as in the Tracy Beaker Fan Club newsletter and on relevant websites. Meanwhile, the title is backed by …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA scores a hat-trick
It’s three weeks at the top of EA’s FIFA 10 in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, despite a strong challenge from Sony’s chart debutant Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Naughty Dog’s PS3 exclusive manages to grab second place in its first week of release, knocking Codemasters’ realistic …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Q3 market data
Electronic Arts maintained a generous chunk of market share in the third quarter of the year, MCV-published data can reveal. The quarterly ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack data this week shows shows that the publisher accounted for over 17 per cent of games sales in unit terms from July to September – and over …
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