Entries in 'credit' (26)
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?
Gamers give up on credit cards
Fewer gamers are using credit cards. NewZoo says that in 2010, 26 per cent of consumers reported making payment for games using credit cards, but that fell to 20 per ...
New releases WILL be at GAME this Friday
Rumours that this week’s big releases will not be available in GAME are untrue, MCV can confirm.
Wii U controller includes NFC communication
Nintendo has confirmed the inclusion of Near Field Communication in the Wii U controller.
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Sony credit rating downgraded
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded Sony’s credit rating to A-, citing concerns over long-term corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings.
THQ nails down fresh credit agreement
Publisher THQ has agreed terms on a four-year deal with credit agency Wells Fargo Capital Finance.
Now SOE confirms data theft
Games developer Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed it was attacked by hackers as part of last month's PSN hack and that user data has possibly been compromised.
Worries surround PSN card security
Six days on and we're still none the wiser as to the nature of the "external intrusion" that has lead to the collapse of PSN – and customers are starting ...
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Facebook credits arrive at retail
Facebook’s push into the games sector has gone physical today as game retailer GAME and supermarket Tesco both introduce Facebook Credit gift cards in store.
Treyarch ‘doesn’t get credit it deserves’
Treyarch, which has for a long time been seen as the underdog to Call of Duty series’ creator Infinity Ward, does not get the credit it deserves for the role ...
Further decline in UK economy
The British economy contracted by 0.8 per cent in the last quarter – more than double the figure predicted by analysts.
UK retail suffering shoplifting surge
Aside from the headlines troubles caused by the wallet-tightening credit crunch, a darker side of the economic crisis is currently blighting UK retail with news that both theft and fraud ...
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New low for non-food retailers
Non-food retailers have experienced their worst month since July 1992, after sales fell by three per cent on 2008.
Gosen: Industry doesn’t get the credit it deserves
David Gosen, the current vice president of marketing for EMEA Xbox and former head of Nintendo Europe, has admitted that he believes the games industry doesn’t get the recognition or ...
Blockbuster future thrown into doubt
Fresh doubt has been cast over the future of rental chain Blockbuster after it emerged that a deal to amend the company’s credit facilities is in jeopardy, Reuters reports.
Casual game targets the jobless
Casual games firm TiltFactor has released a new casual title based on the current economic crisis and, more specifically, the worrying level of unemployment sweeping to the global workplace.
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Casual gaming can "thrive" from recession
Some of the biggest names in the casual games sector have told MCV's sister site CasualGaming.biz that the casual games sector can not just survive the global recession, but actually ...
NPD: Games industry “already being affected by the recession”
The latest stats from NPD show that 2008 was a record year for the video games industry in North America – but signs that the worsening global economic climate is ...
UK economy suffering “frightening deterioration”
A survey conducted by The British Chambers of Commerce have found that the nations’ economy is in the midst of a “frightening deterioration”, with December’s High Street numbers proving the ...
Early December High Street stats positive
The latest UK High Street statistics from Synovate Retail Performance show that the number of non-food shopping trips made between November 30th and December 6th climbed by 10.1 per cent ...
Could credit crunch hit Nintendo hardest?
The extent to which the games industry is or is not ‘recession-proof’ will be revealed over time, but two leading industry analysts have warned that casual-centric games firms, and more ...
Microsoft: Tough times are ahead
Microsoft’s VP of strategy and business development for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business Shane Kim has warned that the games industry will not be completely insulated from the effects of the ...
Xbox 360 enjoys biggest European sales week ever
Platform holder Microsoft has revealed that it ‘recently’ enjoyed its biggest ever sales week in Europe – and it’s thanking the effects of the economic crisis for the boom.
Is casual gaming key to surviving credit crunch?
With the global commerce sector preparing for what could potentially be a lacklustre Q4, UK daily broadsheet The Guardian has predicted that the boom in mass-market friendly casual gaming could ...
Credit crunch could be Blu-ray’s death knell
The effects of the current global economic global crisis could see sales of Blu-ray discs and associated technology dramatically underperform this Christmas, according to some industry observers at the recent ...
