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Sega has compared the family appeal of its upcoming movie adaptation The Golden Compass to that of The Lord Of The Rings. The publisher is confident that it can use the promotional clout of movie distributor New Line to push the title high up the Christmas chart – and become …
Read More »Report claims Warner paid £100m for Traveller’s Tales
Develop reports that EA may have stolen the title of ‘most cash happy acquirer’ last month when it spent big ( $860m big ) to buy BioWare/Pandemic, but it seems Warner Bros wasn’t being tightfisted either when it came to buying Traveller’s Tales. A report on the Manchester Evening News …
Read More »The annual Q4 stock headache
The more positive among you may consider it to be a glowing endorsement of the unprecedented demand for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo consoles. Conversely, you may think of it as scandalous that the three biggest platform holders are already warning that there may be some consumers who are disappointed this …
Read More »Nintendo marketing to bring ‘Mario back to the masses’
Aa anticipation continues to build ahead of the release of Super Mario Galaxy, Nintendo has backed its star title with a marketing campaign to match the insanely high expectations surrounding the title. With rave reviews flooding in from all corners of the media, Nintendo has detailed its ambitious marketing plans …
Read More »UK High Street beats downloads
Online downloads, casual games and MMOs are little more than an irritant to retail – which is still a hugely dominant distribution channel. That was the conclusion from the UK Department for Trade and Investment this week – as exclusively revealed by MCV sister mag Develop. According to the UKTI’s …
Read More »Hardware shortage warning issued to retail
All three platform holders have told MCV that stock of PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii hardware may not meet demand over the festive period. After a storming year with Wii and DS, Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton said: Every year it seems to happen with stock being tight, and …
Read More »SingStar PS3 dated
Sony has confirmed that SingStar on PS3 will be released in the UK on December 7th. The company will promote the title via its MySpace site and through dedicated ‘Singstar Studio’ pods at the 02 arena in London. A wider European release will follow on December 12th. The news was …
Read More »Fox to make an explosive return to games industry?
Movie giant 20th Century Fox looks set to follow fellow Hollywood studio Warner Bros back to the games market. It is understood that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will launch a two-pronged attack, as social networking giant MySpace also strides into the interactive entertainment space. In the same week that Fox …
Read More »Sony rubbishes PS3 40GB failure claims
Following the appearance of a report on Dutch games site Gamed.nl which claimed that Sony is experiencing a 40 per cent failure rate of its recently launched 40GB PS3, Sony has insisted that the figures are completely inaccurate. The story, which has since been removed and replaced with this apology, …
Read More »Bookies back Need For Speed as Christmas number one
EA is all but guaranteed another Christmas number one this year according to both Ladbrokes and Paddy Power, with Need for Speed: Pro Street and FIFA ’08 leading the early betting. While Microsoft’s Halo 3, Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 and Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy are the closest competitors, it …
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