Tag Archives: industry

Fri, Aug 03, 2012 | 12:07 BST

Who’s buying? UK games retail at all-time low

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MCV reports that games retail sunk to an all-time low last week, according to figures released by UKIE and Chart Track.

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Mon, Nov 21, 2011 | 13:49 GMT

Blockbuster: Publishers giving “an awful lot of support” to boost rental over pre-owned

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Blockbuster’s said in an interview with MCV that publishers are offering “an awful lot of support” to dismantle the pre-owned games market.

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Sat, Jul 16, 2011 | 18:44 BST

Market analysis: Industry to grow 10.4% in 2011 to $74.4 billion despite June woes

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Market research group Gartner Inc., has estimated software spending in 2011 hit around $44.7 billion despite June’s 10 percent drop inĀ spendingĀ reported by NPD.

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Tue, Jun 14, 2011 | 18:21 BST

Kojima, Bleszinski, Molyneux and others to deliver speech at Gamelab

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This year’s Gamelab conference in Barcelona, Spain will see industry veterans Hideo Kojima, Cliff Bleszinski, Peter Molyneux and EA founder Trip Hawkins deliver key speeches.

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Sat, Jan 08, 2011 | 18:49 GMT

Games industry hoping 3DS pulls market out of its year-long slump

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Gaming industry vets are excited over Nintendo 3DS, and are hoping the handheld’s release will help pull the market out of the slump it’s been in for the past year.

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Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | 19:44 GMT

Spector disappointed by devs focusing more on “combat mechanics” than interactive storytelling

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Warren Spector has stated in an interview with Develop he’s a bit disappointed that the gaming industry tends to focus more on combat mechanics when it should be looking to include other interactive means of compelling gameplay.
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Fri, Sep 10, 2010 | 15:56 BST

Scottish videogames industry at a crossroads, says TIGA

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TIGA has said the Scottish videogames industry is at a “cross roads” , and if it didn’t get some much needed tax breaks, the sector could decline.

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Wed, Jul 07, 2010 | 21:09 BST

East and West can succeed at globalization with collaboration, says Wada

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Square Enix president Yoichi Wada feels that neither Japanese nor Western publishers have “succeeded at globalization”, due to parent companies having to much control over development studios.

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Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 10:29 BST

NPD May 2010: RDR clears 1.5M, Nintendo dominates hardware

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NPD has released May sales figures for the US, showing the third best-selling May on record after 2008 and 2009 and some monster sales for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption.

However, the industry as a whole was down 10 percent for the month year-on-year.

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Fri, Jun 25, 2010 | 15:08 BST

Inafune: Gaming’s largely a western market

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Capcom’s Kenji Inafune has said that gaming’s becoming largely a western market, which is why Capcom is “fighting the good fight,” in order to get its games to work.

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Fri, Jun 18, 2010 | 11:54 BST

Analyst: 3DS to launch in west in March 2011, cost $249-$299

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Analyst firm Lazard Capital Markets has revealed that it expects that Nintendo to launch its new 3DS system in Japan late this year, and with a US release following in March 2011.

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Sun, Jun 06, 2010 | 13:24 BST

Molyneux: Converging “forces” to spawn new genres

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In a new interview, Lionhead Studios creative director Peter Molyneux has said that he believes “new genres” will emerge out of the intersection of social spaces, motion control and emotional intent.

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Wed, May 26, 2010 | 20:04 BST

Analyst expects PS3 to outsell 360 by 3.5M this year

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According to a report from Strategy Analytics, the global market share for PS3 is expected to be around 31 percent for the first quarter of the year, will global sales reaching 14 million.

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