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MCV sat down with PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara shortly after E3 to discuss Vita, Wonderbook, the challenges at UK retail and how PSN can grow the market for all. Vita has had a difficult start in terms of sales. Has it been a total disappointment?We would love it to …
Read More »Alan Duncan leaves PlayStation UK
Marketing director Alan Duncan has left SCE UK after almost 13 years at the platform holder. Duncan began his career in the games industry at GT Interactive in 1998, but joined Sony a year later as product manager. He then moved up to marketing manager and then marketing director, a …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Fergal Gara, SCE UK
PS3 grew its UK market share in 2011, but Sony’s flagship console still sits in the shadow of Xbox 360. In his first ever interview as Sony’s UK and Ireland VP, Fergal Gara tells MCV how he’s going to revitalise PlayStation in 2012. SCEE President Jim Ryan told MCV in …
Read More »OPINION: Fergal Gara & SCE UK; Dead Island’s success; GameCity prize
Over THE past few weeks we’ve reported on managerial role changes at Microsoft, Activision, HMV, Disney and Comet. But the biggest move we broke on MCVuk.com last week: the appointment of top Asda man Fergal Gara as new chief of SCE UK.He’s signed up for a closely-watched gig. Only weeks …
Read More »Fergal Gara named SCE UK MD
Fergal Gara is the new VP and managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK and Ireland, MCV can reveal. The former Asda entertainment boss has also worked for EMI and BBC. Whilst at Asda, Gara managed the music, video and games categories. It was under his guidance that the grocer …
Read More »Games price hike ‘worrying’, says Asda
Asda’s entertainment director Fergal Gara has questioned the publishing community’s recent decision to raise RRP of top triple-A software. As revealed by MCV, Activision and other publishers have pushed up the RRP of top upcoming games, including Modern Warfare 2. Gara (pictured) told MCV: It is a worry. We don’t …
Read More »Asda considers bypassing EUK
Asda has asked around 15 of its entertainment distributors to set up direct accounts, should its relationship with Woolworths-owned buying team EUK ‘suddenly deteriorate’. And the supermarket has even admitted that it could be tempted into buying EUK as a last resort. That’s according to Cue Entertainment, which reports that …
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