Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | 15:57 GMT
MCV Awards finalists announced
Intent’s put out the list of finalists for the MCV Awards, which take place on April 23 in London.
There aren’t many shocks in there, with all the usual suspects up for a mention.
Full thing after the break.
The MCV Industry Excellence Awards nominations in full:
RETAIL CATEGORY
Retail Innovation
HMV Gamerbase
HMV Re/Play
Play.com Live
Lovefilm rental
CHIPS accessories
Store Manager
Rupert Banning-Lover – HMV Birmingham Fort
Richard Pascoe – Chips Hereford
Martin Tuckwood – Asda Derby
Mike Barnes/Pearl Robinson – GAME Oxford Street
Gary Noakes – Gameplayer
High Street Retailer
HMV
GAME
Gamestation
Chips
Asda
Star Store
GAME Oxford Street
HMV Liverpool One
Gamestation Birmingham New Street
Chips Dudley
Asda Derby
Online Retailer
Game.co.uk
Shopto.net
Play.com
Amazon
Gameseek
The Hut
PEOPLE & INDUSTRY CATEGORY
Sales Team
Activision Blizzard
Sega
EA
Ubisoft
Microsoft
Nintendo
Sales Triumph
Crisis Core – Square Enix
Imagine range – Ubisoft
Fallout 3 – Bethesda Softworks
Cooking Mama 2 – 505 Games
Carnival Games – 2K Games
Ben 10 – D3P
Games Publisher
Nintendo
EA
Ubisoft
Microsoft
Sega
Activision
Development Team
Lionhead
Blackrock Studios
Codemasters
Rockstar North
Media Molecule
Distribution Team
Koch
Gem
Centresoft
Advantage
Music Box Leisure
PR & MARKETING CATEGORY
New Game Brand
GRID – Codemasters
Pure – Disney Interactive Studios
Dead Space – EA
Professor Layton – Nintendo
Little Big Planet – SCE
PR Team
EA
Microsoft
Capcom
Nintendo/Red
Sony
Ubisoft
Game Campaign
Guitar Hero World Tour – Activision Blizzard
GTA IV – Rockstar
FIFA – EA
Fallout 3 – Bethesda Softworks
Wii Fit – Nintendo
Call Of Duty: World at War – Activision Blizzard
Marketing Team
EA
Microsoft
Activision Blizzard
Sega
Nintendo
Marketing Innovation
FIFA 4 min ad
All Singing, All Dancing, All Disney campaign
Rising Star Home of Japanese Games
MS New Xbox Live Experience
Sony online community work
RETAIL ADVISORY BOARD SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Darren Bowen – Ubisoft
Andy Yates – Nintendo
John Clark – Sega
Mark Howson – SCE UK
Jonathan Grimes – Microsoft
The MCV Awards 2009 take place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London.
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Posted in: Awards, Trade, UK
Tags: mcv awards
12 comments
#1
G1GAHURTZ
26/02/09, 4:17 pm
Store manager!?
Forget GAME Oxford Street too…
I was arguing with some staff in there for ages when I bought my Elite, because I didn’t want the crappy games that came with the bundle.
They didn’t budge, and I ended up getting the console and a game seperately.
I’ve stopped spending stupid amounts of money in there since then…
#2
G1GAHURTZ
26/02/09, 4:18 pm
MS pwns Sony for nominations… lol!
#3
Shatner
26/02/09, 4:23 pm
xbotsaregettingincreasinglydespearatelol
#4
SERAPHEMZ
26/02/09, 4:25 pm
WOW… I’d like to know who did the voting. You are going to tell me that in the “Game Publisher” dept Sony doesnt deserve to be there..
#5
G1GAHURTZ
26/02/09, 4:26 pm
Haha! and SEGA do!
LOL
#6
Bringit
26/02/09, 4:31 pm
It kinda makes sense. MCV’s a tradey site/mag/thing, so it praises the games publishers that do well commercially. Sony released better games than Sega, but did any of them do as well as Mario and Sonic? Nah.
#7
rauper
26/02/09, 4:33 pm
Actually Sega did really well last year thanks to Mario & Sonic (one of the biggest selling games ever in the UK) and Football Manager. As a result they’ve overtaken various companies such as THQ in the sales rankings. Activision will probably still win though, since they’ve completed dominated via Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
#8
SERAPHEMZ
26/02/09, 4:34 pm
Did Sonic do that well? really? I wouldnt question Mario. So these awards have nothing to do with quality then.. i guess that explains it.
#9
G1GAHURTZ
26/02/09, 4:35 pm
lol. He means Mario and Sonic Olympic games…
#10
SERAPHEMZ
26/02/09, 4:35 pm
I get it now. Sorry, didnt know that this was UK based. Now it all makes sense.
#11
Captain Fruitloop
26/02/09, 5:20 pm
“Sorry, didnt know that this was UK based.”
I think the clue was in all the individual stores mentioned being in the UK. As is the listed location of the award ceremony…
#12
Johnny Cullen
26/02/09, 7:22 pm
I hope Ubi win Best PR.
My friend works there as the UK Community Team Leader, knew her back from when she was a mod for the UK PlayStation forums.