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ANALYSIS: Dark Souls and the core gamer
MCV looks at what the arrival of the toughest game, Namco Bandai's Dark Souls, ever says about the market...
UK Software Sales Monitor: Market jumps to £27.7m
The UK games retail market generated £27.7m last week, a 136 per cent rise week-on-week and the second highest number this year.
Nottingham Market to be "transformed" into Hyrule
In celebration of its 25th birthday, Nintendo’s iconic Zelda franchise is to take the limelight at October’s GameCity6 event in Nottingham next month.
UK Software Sales Monitor: Market falls to £11.7m
A lack of major product saw the UK games market drop significantly to £11.73m this week – a fall of 34 per cent.
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Friday's Five-Second Facts
Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting.
UK Software Sales Monitor: Market jumps to £17.6m
The weekly games software market value hit £17.6m this week – up 28 per cent over the £13.7m generated last week.
505 shines in bleak August for UK retail
Retail will hope the worst is behind it as August game sales plunged to new lows.
NPD reports 23% decline in US August video games market
The latest data from stats body NPD has shown that the US video games market suffered a 23 per cent year-on-year decline in August.
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Brand Map: Gears of War
It’s only a few weeks now until Gears of War 3 is released. Over the three years since the previous game in the series, the term 'Added Value' is the tag ...
UK Software Sales Monitor: Market makes £13.7m
The UK games market slipped slightly this week, down six per cent in value to £13.7m and five per cent in units to 619,538.
Deus Ex gets UK games retail back on its feet
The UK boxed games market has recovered from its ten-year low on the back of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Brand Map: Mario Kart
This week we’re going to look at Mario Kart using the GameVision Brand Map you can buy direct from MCV online.
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UK Software Sales Monitor: Market falls to £9.03m
As if last year’s ten-year low wasn’t bad enough, this week the market value fell even further.
Apple shares fall 5% on Jobs resignation
No company is reliant on just one man – particularly the biggest tech company in the world. But so iconic has Steve Jobs become that Apple saw around £10bn wiped ...
Microsoft remains committed to Xbox in Japan
Things may be tough for Xbox 360 in Japan, but after over five years of trying to crack the territory Microsoft has said that it has absolutely no intention ...
Disc-based games sales fall in US
A new report from The Entertainment Merchants Association has revealed that sales of physical games on disc declined significantly in 2010.
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US games market tumbles to five year low
After showing some impressive resilience over the last few months, the US games market has been brought crashing back to earth.
UK software sales monitor: Market makes £11.5m
The weekly entertainment UK software value rose to £11.5m, up slightly from the £11.2m generated from game sales last week.
EA: Boxed games just 55% of the market
The global games market is getting pretty close to a 50/50 split between digital and physical revenue, according to a senior EA Sports exec.
UK games market tumbles to new low
Another month, another bleak story about the state of the UK games retail market.
Introducing MCV Gametime
In a new weekly feature, we look at the overall advertising activity for video games on TV.
Pachter: Vita will rob Nintendo market share
US analyst Michael Pachter believes that the PS Vita will achieve what the PSP did not and eat into Nintendo's handheld market share.
Core leadership under threat
The rising market in what stat trackers NPD 'digital gamers' is threatening to overthrow hardcore gamers as the most active segment in the market.
Xbox COO questions Vita strategy
One of Microsoft's leading Xbox execs has spoken of his scepticism surrounding the upcoming launch of PlayStation Vita and its chances of success in the market place.
EA losing ground in casual sector
Cowen & Company's Doug Creutz has predicted that EA will slip drop a place in the casual and social games market within the next few weeks, with German company Wooga ...
