Entries in 'era' (25)
FIFA 13 fell just 70k units short of Black Ops II in 2012
Call of Duty: Black Ops II and FIFA 13 are the two biggest entertainment releases of the year at UK retail.
ERA 'saddened' by Blockbuster news
The Entertainment Retail Association hopes Blockbuster will re-emerge in some form.
ERA: "This may not be the end of HMV's story"
Kim Bayley, the director general of the Entertainment Retailers Association, has claimed that HMV is too important for music and video companies to let it disappear.
UK digital games sales pass £500m in 2012
A report being published by the Entertainment Retailers Association will this morning say that digital sales in the UK passed £1bn in 2012.
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Veteran Bushnell "baffled" by Wii U, says this is the end of an era
Atari founder and games industry veteran Nolan Bushnell has predicted bad things for both Wii U and the wider console games industry.
Video games now bigger than movies
Growth in digital has seen video games overtake movies as the most lucrative entertainment medium in the UK.
The REAL entertainment Top 40
You know that Entertainment Top 40 released last week and published online by the games press (including MCV)? Well it was wrong.
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MCV launches reports service
MCV has launched a Reports section within its new website, from which readers can buy and download some of the best games market research available.
New retail stats show games on top in entertainment war
3.3 million copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops were sold in 2010, making it the most successful entertainment property of the year, according to ERA.
Average price of a video game: £24.32
The average price of a video game last year was £24.32, Chart-Track data has revealed.
High Street loses ground to supermarkets
Watch out GAME and HMV: supermarkets and online retailers are taking a bigger slice of the UK games software market.
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Video games is 'biggest UK digital market'
The UK digital video games market is bigger than the music and DVD market combined, says retail body ERA.
MW2 is 2009’s entertainment champ
Having shattered most the game industry’s records upon its release last year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has also emerged as the overall UK entertainment champ of 2009.
3DS could spark “new cycle of innovation”
A leading analyst has predicted that Nintendo’s 3DS can help usher in a new era of 3D gaming in a way that the expensive options being prepared by the likes ...
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ERA defends supermarket pre-owned push
The Entertainment Retailers Association has defended Tesco and Asda’s decision to take their first tentative steps into the pre-owned market.
ERA: ‘Don’t get greedy with DLC’
Publishers have been urged not sell too much bonus content at a premium to consumers.
ERA: Filesharing “bleeding retail dry”
The new chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association Paul Quirk has claimed that internet file-sharing is the greatest challenge posed to modern entertainment retailers, claiming that internet piracy “is bleeding ...
AGE RATINGS: ‘Retail won’t sell adult games to kids’
The Entertainment Retail Association is confident that its members will not use today’s shock news about the Video Recordings Act to profit from selling adult material to children.
RETAIL BIZ: News round-up
This week in Retail Biz, Gamestop has posted its eighth consecutive year of growth, with a like-for-like sales climb of 12.3 per cent.
It’s official: Video games are saving the High Street
Video games were the shining light of the High Street last year – pulling the overall UK entertainment retail sector kicking and screaming to a five per cent increase in ...
Games beats music in 2008
Despite the economic downturn, British retailers sold a record number of games, DVDs and music in 2008 – with video games ahead of the pack, establishing the medium as the ...
Zavvi MD becomes ERA Chairman
Zavvi managing director Simon Douglas has been elected chairman at the Entertainment Retailers’ Association for the next year.
