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THQ rumoured to close Japan publishing arm
THQ is set to close its Japan publishing arm at the end of this month, according to reports.
Black Ops beats Modern Warfare 3 by 0.5m copies in UK
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may have shattered records left, right and centre, but it fell far short of its predecessor in the UK.
GAME.co.uk back up and running after down time
The GAME Group has apologised for the technical issues that have marred the re-launch of the GAME and Gamestation websites.
PSN's 43 day nightmare is over
Sony has this morning confirmed that the PlayStation Store is being turned back on around the world.
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XBL Marketplace back online after outage
The Xbox Live Marketplace was inoperable for a brief period last night, though Microsoft has insisted that the problems were not due to any kind of hack or intrusion.
UK retail suffers March fall
Almost one million fewer games were sold at UK retail last month compared to the same period in 2010.
Games market down as sector fragments
Retail will not match 2009’s sales figures, despite a Q4 sales surge.
Burns to leave Atari next month
MCV can confirm that the current vice president and general manager of European operations at Atari John Burns will step down from his role next month.
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AUS: Atkinson steps down
The man who many see as the main barrier to Australia’s introduction of a R18+ ratings certificate, Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, is to leave Parliamant in 2014.
Kotick thought MMOs were ‘silly’
“Mind-boggling” – that’s the word Activision boss Bobby Kotick used to describe how he felt about the $7m acquisition of Blizzards by Davidson & Associates in 1994.
VC games investment plummets
The amount of money invested in the video games sector by venture capitalists in North America was down 29 per cent in 2010 according to a new data from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
How Activision missed out on The Sims
In a meeting at Maxis’ offices where the exec was considering a possible acquisition of the studio, Activision boss Bobby Kotick was offered the chance to preview the latest secretive ...
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EA to shut down old game servers
Publisher EA is to power down a host of servers used to run the multiplayer component of a number of last-gen and some early next-gen titles, it has revealed.
Gardner steps down as Atari CEO
Atari has confirmed that high-profile CEO David Gardner has left the post, with his boots being filled by former COO Jeff Lapin.
NPD: Music genre down 46%
Though the signs are that the world is slowly pulling out of recession, punters are seemingly still proving reluctant to shell out the high cost demanded of modern rhythm action ...
Music game revenues plummet
A bit of digging at the latest NPD results for the North American games market has shown that revenues generated by leading music genre brands Guitar Hero and Rock Band ...
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JAPAN: Market declines by 24%
The bad news continues for the troubled Japanese games industry with new stats from Famitsu-owning Enterbrain showing that the total value of the region’s games market is down 24.4 per ...
Blu-ray and DVD sales down
The global market for both Blu-ray and DVD discs dropped by 4.8 per cent to $482m in 2008, with analyst Screen Digest blaming both the worldwide recession and online piracy ...
The Matrix Online goes offline for good
After an at times turbulent four years on the market Sony Online Entertainment is to turn off the servers to virtual world The Matrix Online on July 31st.
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 ...
Pandemic Brisbane cut off by EA?
If rumours are to be believed, US publisher Electronic Arts has told Pandemic Studios’ Brisbane-based Australian office that it has been “set free” from its ties to the company.
WOOLWORTHS: UK games market will face more casualties
Today’s closing down sale represents what is probably the last hurrah for the UK’s celebrated Woolworths brand – but top retail figures in the UK games industry have warned that ...
WOOLIES UPDATE: Closing down sale begins tomorrow
The Joint Administrators to Woolworths have today announced that a store closing sale will begin in stores on Thursday December 11th.
Woolworths to close down within days?
Woolworths could be facing its last few days on UK High Street with reports that administrator Deloitte has failed to find a buyer for the struggling retailer.
Xbox Live recovers after troubled weekend
Microsoft has claimed that technical issues which saw many users face problems accessing the Xbox Live network over the weekend have now been resolved.
