Entries in 'crunch' (16)
HMV board holds crunch talks as retailer ponders administration
The directors of beleaguered retailer HMV are said to be locked in emergency talks tonight as the retailer considers entering administration.
GAME holds crunch talks with suppliers
A takeover at GAME still looks some way off, with the retailer having recently held talks with publishers in an effort to raise funds needed to pay store rents this ...
LA Noire developer disputes crunch claims
Team Bondi’s management is “actively working to learn from mistakes”, one dev at the company has said, weeks after it was revealed a controversial crunch culture had swept through the ...
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.
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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
“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 ...
Hirai: Gaming will be “less affected” by credit crunch
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuro Hirai has expressed his belief that the games industry can whether the storm of the increasingly volatile global financial unrest.
