Entries in '2008' (58)
eBay suffers steep Q4 income drop
Internet auction giant eBay has revealed that revenues for Q4 2008 were down seven per cent on the same period in 2007, reaching $2.04bn – far lower than analysts had ...
AUSTRALIA: Market jumps by 47 per cent
Australia has become the latest nation to following the footsteps of the UK, USA and Canada (though sadly not Japan) by reporting impressive rises in the value of ...
CANADA: Annual games market soars
Following last week’s news that the North American video games market grew by 19 per cent to hit $21.33bn last year, NPD figures have also shown that the Canadian industry ...
NPD: Nintendo shatters records in 2008
Nintendo was the main beneficiary of a record-breaking year for the video games market in North America last year, with Wii breaking the record for the number of unit sales ...
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NPD: 2008 video game revenues top $21bn
Following the trend seen in the UK market and shunning the falls seen in Japan, the North American video games market grew to record levels in 2008, hitting a ...
JAPAN: Market shrinks by 15 per cent in 2008
Enterbrain, the publisher behind Japanese games bible Famitsu and the leading authority on the Japanese games market, has released its 2008 report – and it shows that despite the gains ...
GameStop celebrates record festive sales
North American and global games retailer GameStop has posted some strong numbers for its festive sales period, showing that the company enjoyed its best ever performance for the nine weeks ...
Sony: PS3 sales up 130%
Following SCEE president’s David Reeves upbeat forecast of the year ahead for PlayStation, fellow executives have praised the achievements of the business in the last 12 months and predicted ...
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JAPAN: Year-on-year market decline predicted
Ahead of the release of its official figures next week, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain is predicting a significant decline in the value of the Japanese video games market in 2008.
2008’s most played console was… PS2
Data from research and analysis firm Nielsen claims that North America gamers spent more time playing Sony’s PS2 than any other console in 2008.
2008 Review – Part Four
With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q4 we saw the sad demise of ...
2008 Review – Part Three
With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q3 the games industry continued to buck ...
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2008 Review – Part Two
With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q2 we saw PEGI and the BBFC ...
2008 Review – Part One
With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q1 we saw the demise of HD-DVD, ...
Fable II named Telegraph’s best game of 2008
UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph this weekend published its extensive 50 Best Games of 2008 list, and Microsoft and Lionhead’s Fable II was the paper’s pick of the bunch for ...
Casual gaming - 2008 in review
It was the year casual games went from the worst kept multi-million dollar secret in the games business to its potential saviour. Favoured with big investments from venture capitalists and ...
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GTA IV tops Time 2008 top ten
US news journal Time has listed its top ten picks for the games of note in 2008 – and it’s Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV that claims the top spot.
PS3 Home launch ‘in next 10 days’
The clock is ticking on Sony’s recurrent pledge to release an open beta for its PS3 social network Home by the end of the year – and a report in ...
Runescape named Yahoo's fifth biggest search
Leading free-to-play browser based MMO Runescape has remarkably been named as the fifth most searched term on global search engine giant Yahoo, beating some top-draw competition in the process.
Sony maintains 2008 launch for PS3 Home
The clock is ticking on 2008, but Sony has once again asserted that its PS3 Home service will be opened to the public before the turn of the year.
Playlogic’s Q3 revenue drops 70%
Dutch publisher Playlogic has reported disappointing figures for its fiscal third quarter which show revenues of £740,000 – a number that’s 70 per cent down on the revenues reported in ...
“Wretched month” on UK High Street
Whilst shopping numbers have to date remained buoyant amidst the current global credit crunch, October stats from the Retail Traffic Index make for sombre reading for retail, with a 3.1 ...
Gameloft enjoys Q3 sales rise
Leading casual mobile and portable games publisher Gameloft has announced Q3 2008 sales of €26.2 million – numbers that are eight per cent up on the same period from 2007.
EA to lay off 6% of work force
Global publishing powerhouse EA has announced that it is to cut six per cent of its global workforce, equivalent to between 500 and 600 positions, following increased losses in the ...
JAPAN: DS wins in August as market declines
Data from Enterbrain, the publisher and analyst firm behind Japanese games bible and MCV media partner Famitsu, has shown that Japan’s games market in August was down 17 per cent ...
