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New, boxed games lose out in US market
NPD’s Games Industry: Total Consumer Spend report has claimed new, boxed game sales in the US accounted for the minority of the market in Q2 2011.
Games retailers turn to film for sales boost
UK games retailers are missing a trick by not stocking DVD and Blu-rays, Koch has told MCV.
QA Profile: U-Trax
MCV sits down with U-Trax president Richard van der Giessen about the state of the localisation and quality assurance sector.
Link Distribution acquires A Game Distribution
Bradford-based UK video games firm Link Distribution has agreed a deal to acquire London rival A Game Distribution.
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Games market steps up a Gear
Christmas came early for UK retail last week: physical game sales rose to its highest point since the first week of the year.
Asda takes aim at Amazon UK
Forget the High Street price war, the biggest battle this Q4 will take place online.
Western publishers looking beyond IP
The value of IP is already very well understood, but one firm has claimed that games publishers in the West are slowly catching up with their Eastern counterparts by taking ...
OnLive.co.uk is finally here
The future or just a flash in the pan? Either way, the OnLive journey is going to be a fascinating one and today’s the day the service finally launches in ...
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UK CHARTS: August 2011
The fact that Deus Ex is No.2 after just two days on sale says as much about the state of UK games retail as it does about the performance of ...
Study author brands Metro story "inaccurate"
The man behind the report that formed the basis of Metro’s absurd anti-gaming story this morning has slammed the paper’s reporting of it.
Gaming giants sign up to London MCM Expo
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Saints Row 3 and The Darkness 2 will be amongst the blockbuster games on show at this October’s London MCM Expo.
Metro "can't tell real world from fantasy"
“Hardcore gamers become so immersed in virtual worlds that they turn to imaginary consoles to ‘zoom in’ to people in crowds or to pick things up from the floor.”
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Metro plans News of the Worldstyle phone tapping spree
Well, it doesn't. But that's a great headline, isn't it?
EA: 'Retail is still relevant to digital market'
EA may be investing heavily in digital businesses, but that doesn’t mean retail will be left out.
GameStop: Breaking streets dates is not part of our plan
The UK arm of retailer GameStop has insisted that it intends to observe street dates in the future.
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GameStop's cheeky answer to online early selling
Online retail’s tendency to ship games early has irked its High Street rivals for years, but a new trick from GameStop hopes to protect the seller from accusations of early ...
Friday's Five-Second Facts
Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting.
Simon Harvey returns with Bosh
A new entertainment commercial and marketing broker, Bosh Entertainment, has launched – with the former Barrington Harvey chief at the helm.
New interactive honour is 'the Turner Prize of games'
Video games will get an accolade that wants to be our equivalent of the Turner, Mercury or Booker prize.
£3.2bn Olympic opportunity for games retailers
HMV and GAME hope to get a slice of Olympic gold as they open new-look stores in Westfield’s £1.45bn Stratford shopping complex.
FEATURE: Q&A and Localisation Roundtable
As consumers opt for bigger games of a higher quality, the need for these products to undergo vigorous testing is stronger than ever.
505 shines in bleak August for UK retail
Retail will hope the worst is behind it as August game sales plunged to new lows.
FEATURE: Digital thriving on the High Street
Ask an industry exec what retailers can do to survive in today’s increasingly digital marketplace, and they’ll tell you: ‘Retail needs to evolve.’
ShopTo.net doubles warehouse capacity
Leading independent online games retailer ShopTo.net has doubled its warehouse capacity as we enter the busy Q4 period.
