Category Archives: Spain

Capcom and Xbox 360 are on a quest to find the Street Fighter IV champions in  France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.  When found, the champ will be crowed the European Street Fighter Supreme Master.

Not only will the winner be bestowed with such a long, illustrious title, they will win some prizes too.

To enter the tournament, sign up here or via Xbox Live between now and May 17. Capcom will then track your progress in the automatic Championship Mode leader boards, and all you need to do is win as many matches as possible and build up your score of Grade Points.

The top 30 Grade Points scoring players will be invited to a live final in their respective country on the weekend of May 30.

National champions will be sent on to a secret European location for the Euro final, June 13-14.

Press release is below and more details are through the link.
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SCEE’s confirmed that the EU PS Blog will launch this summer, after announcing yesterday that Three Speech is to close later this month.

“The blog will be launched in English first, with French, Italian, German and Spanish versions to follow soon after,” said a rep.

“There will be a period between the closure of ThreeSpeech and the launch of the EU blog. During this time please check PlayStation.com and the official forums for news and updates on all that is going on in the world of PlayStation.

“We’ll keep you posted with more information about the blog as soon as we have it.”

Sooner the better.

Eurogamer Network’s launched its Spanish language site, Eurogamer.es. Hola, Eurogamer.es.

Eurogamer España is run by the team behind the popular Spanish gaming blog Anaitgames.com.

“We’ve once again found a fantastic group to work with and we’re delighted to be able to launch a site in this key gaming market,” said Eurogamer boss Rupert Loman.

“Our European network is now starting to demonstrate its potential with co-ordinated pan-European editorial, marketing and community activities.”

A Spanish PlayStation 3 ad, showing a woman inside layers of men in a Russian doll effect, has caused a chorus of “WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS” overnight from various websites. See it here.

We’re completely baffled. If we lived for a million years, we could never, ever fathom the message here. In fact, we’re going to kill ourselves right now.

Spanish magazine Hobby Consolas has published what appears to be the first PES 09 review, and the score’s 92 percent.

Despite the mark, however, the review says the series still hasn’t found its current gen “sweet spot,” and “The game engine is stuck on last year’s, with improvements.”

Get more on WinningElevenBlog.

According to this MCV piece, a GameVision report has shown that Britain has the oldest gamers in Europe, on average.

The research showed that 29 percent of male active gamers, and 30 percent of female active gamers are said to be 35 years old or over in the UK, compared with 24 percent and 25 percent in Spain and Italy.

No mention’s made there of France and Germany. Which does, like, leave something of a hole in the whole “Europe” thing, to be honest.

“Generally any chat about the average gamer is a bit nuts – it’s a mass market pursuit now with the associated niches and segments – you can’t sell anything to gamers en-masse, you have to pitch it at the appropriate niche,” explained GameVision’s Sean Droomgoole.

More through the link.

According to data from Media Control GfK International, European software sales are on the up.

Sales have risen by 25.6 percent for the first half of 2008 compared with last year’s tally.

Our Dutch brothers have been buying games like crazy, as sales for the region have risen by a massive 46 percent.

Compared with the same period in 2007, sales in Germany and Italy are up 39 percent whilst the Spanish have spent 25 percent more than they did this time last year.

Thanks, GI.

By Mike Bowden

Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots has taken pole in the Spanish and German software charts for week ending June 22, GI reports.

According to figures from Media-Control GfK International, Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core is straight in at number three in both territories.

The full chart listings for both countries are through the link.

By Mike Bowden

Konami’s put out a press release saying Metal Gear 4′s been delayed in Spain thanks to industrial action over fuel costs. No lorries, no transport, no Snake.

Statement after the link. Thanks, Kotaku.

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While GTA IV’s hanging on to the top spot in the UK, the Rockstar monster-game hasn’t been so evergreen in the rest of Europe.

Charts today show that MMO Age of Conan has now overtaken the game in Sweden and Germany, while Wii Fit has put Niko’s adventure in its place in Spain.

Full details on Next-Gen.

According to this GI report, the PS3 version of GTA IV has outsold the 360 SKU in both Germany and Spain in its first week on sale.

The 360 version only managed third place in the Spanish charts, trailing Wii Fit.

Click through for all the info.

As surprising as the moon coming up at night, but there we are. According to this MCV piece, GTA IV is top of the charts in Germany, Spain and Sweden this week, as well as probably everywhere else in the world. Apart from Japan. And India.

We just got word from the big Sierra event kicking off in Mallorca right now that all coverage is embargoed until May 28.

The news has slowed down today just a little bit more. We reckon we could jump in the air and we’d probably just hang there. Stuck.

So says this. Only English, German and French translations are to be released in Europe. And when is it going to be releeased? We know, but we can’t say, but put it this way: it’s not going to be before the US version ships in April.

Nitendo probably drowned in money this morning, with news that Spain and Germany can’t get enough of that shit, yo. Sweden isn’t to be fooled, however, preferring to rock out with Guitar Hero III and Singstar on PS2. Those wacky Nords. Lists from here.

Spain

01. Wii Play (Wii)
02. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)
03. More Brain Training (DS)
04. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)
05. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3)
06. Brain Training (DS)
07. Unreal Tournament (PS3)
08. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (Wii)
09. Big Brain Academy (Wii)
10. Trivial (Wii)

Germany

01. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)
02. More Brain Training (DS)
03. Brain Training (DS)
04. Professor Kageyamas Maths Training (DS)
05. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)
06. Wii Play (Wii)
07. Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings (DS)
08. World of Warcraft (PC)
09. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
10. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

Sweden

01. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2)
02. SingStar Sweden hits Schlager (PS2)
03. World of Warcraft (PC)
04. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii)
05. Counter Strike 1: Anthology (PC)
06. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
07. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (360)
08. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS3)
09. Ratatouille (PS2)
10. Calll of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)

We love Spain. So does EA. According to this, the publisher’s opened a massive testing centre in Madrid that will employ between 200 and 400 people from 20 European countries.

“We decided several years ago that we needed to centralise all of our services,” said EA’s international VP for development services, Jaime Gine.

Most of the work there’s going to be translation, apparently.

“Our job is to make sure that the translation matches the context and the development of the game,” said Laurent Gabas, a 25-year-old French games tester.