Entries in 'analysis' (49)
ANALYSIS: The pre-owned market
Before March this year, GAME and Gamestation were by far the UK’s biggest pre-owned game retailers.
ANALYSIS: Are console contracts the future?
Price promotions are an industry staple, but few have got the trade talking like Microsoft’s latest offer.
FEATURE: 2012's biggest TV advertisers
Jonathan Chambers, AV manager at media planning and buying specialist Generation Media, looks at how much impact publishers and platform holders have had on TV advertising so far, how this ...
ANALYSIS: A closer look at gaming's top brands
Earlier this week, we revealed the Top Five biggest games brands of all time using Chart-Track’s CUBE?data warehouse solution.
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ANALYSIS: The blame GAME
Parker Consulting analyst Nick Parker casts his eyes over GAME Group and looks at the reasons behind its initial fall into administration...
ANALYSIS: UK Games Market's Top 5 Brands
In this new regular segment with insight from leading stat-trackers, Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch reveals the Top Five best-selling video games brands in the UK...
ANALYSIS: Why Nintendo signed Shaun the Sheep
Those plasticine aficionados over at Aardman must be on cloud nine right now.
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FEATURE: Rush to cash in store credit could expedite GAME demise
GAME’s Spring Clean sale has certainly proved popular with customers. But has it helped or hindered GAME’s current plight?
Phil Harrison's appointment and what it means for Microsoft
It’s easy to see Phil Harrison’s appointment as the boss of Microsoft Studios Europe as a vanity signing.
ANALYSIS: Microsoft Flight
Flight simulators have been around since the early days of computer games, with the first one landing around 30 years ago.
FEATURE: Does gaming need 3D?
3D technology in the home has yet to achieve mass penetration in any sector. Sales of compatible TVs may be increasing, but they have yet to claim a majority of households.
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2011 REVIEW: What MW3 vs BF3 says about the market
It was supposed to be the fight that would define the year. Call of Duty had met its match. For the first time ever, the game was to go up against ...
UK CHARTS: November 2011
At last, UK games retail has reason to cheer following a strong month of sales. But November wasn’t all about Call of Duty:?Modern Warfare 3 and Assassin’s Creed:?Revelations.
ANALYSIS: GAME's trading update
Last week The Telegraph ran the headline ‘Can GAME Group survive?’ It was a sensational headline, not entirely based on the facts of the situation, and as GAME Group CEO ...
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MW3 vs BF3 - has EA won market share?
Battlefield 3 sold really well. Modern Warfare 3 sold really, REALLY well. But who won the war?
ANALYSIS: 'Arrogant' Best Buy was doomed from the start
It was in May 2008 when the world’s biggest electricals retailer announced its UK invasion.
Brand Map: Call of Duty
This week we’re going to look at playing habits for Call of Duty using the GameVision Brand Map.
ANALYSIS: (On)Live and Kicking
Pundits will have you believe the next generation of games hardware won’t arrive until 2013 or later. However last week, at 12.01am on September 22nd, a fifth home gaming format ...
Brand Map: Call of Duty
If you had the envious responsibility of launching a huge title such as Call of Duty into the market, which other video game franchises would you say are its primary competition?
OPINION: An early Nintendo price cut? These are crazy times
I don’t think anyone saw this coming. And if they say they did, they’re either really clever or a liar.
OPINION: Nintendo's E3 press conference
I'm beginning to think Satoru and Reggie glimpsed a bit of my script before they took to the stage.
OPINION: Sony's E3 press conference
The Vita brand reveal would have been the big surprise. But in typical Sony style that was leaked a while back. So this left Sony without any big surprises ...
OPINION: Microsoft's E3 press conference
There's someone getting a monumental telling off tonight. Were it not for a colossal balls up at Xbox.com earlier that resulted in the early reveal of Halo 4, tonight's ...
