Game industry business news

MCV is aware that you’ve already started poaching a few experienced, high-level industry sales and marketing execs. What’s the plan for this recruitment drive? It is particularly important to have games-specific expertise in sales, marketing and PR. We are going out in the marketplace now and we have been working …

Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Hamburg are all in the running to take Games Convention a step further in 2009 after last week’s biggest ever event in Leipzig. While event organiser Leipziger Messe has confirmed that the show will be back in Leipzig next year, the race is on for other …

The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) is to meet with the Conservative Party – where it says it will address” comments made by David Cameron this week. ELSPA will meet with Shadow Secretary for Culture Jeremy Hunt in October – whom MCV interviewed on his plans for the …

The British Board Of Film Classification has refuted David Cameron’s call for a review of its guidelines – and has been backed by the Government. The Conservative Party leader this week revealed the Tories’ new ‘mini-manifesto’ on ‘Britain’s crisis’, entitled: It’s Time to Fight Back. The dossier calls for an …

The finest minds in the business will gather at London’s AKA bar next week for the second Xbox 360/MCV Industry Pub Quiz to see who can dethrone Konami as the Brains of Games. The event takes place on Wednesday evening and is already sold out. Headline sponsor Microsoft will present …

Global retail president at Vivendi, Pascal Brochier has re-affirmed the publisher’s commitment to the UK after a recent re-structuring of its management line-up. The publisher is looking to take on a UK boss, following Xochilt Balzola-Widmann’s appointment as executive VP and general manager for European retail after the departure of …

Midway’s mission to become a true blockbuster publisher is to come good this Q4 as the firm starts to unleash its biggest next-gen properties, says CEO David Zucker. The US publisher has what it believes is its strongest product line-up for years, and is now looking forward to reaping the …

Independent Games Festival to award those working in the handheld space

It’s been touted for months, but now it finally looks as though Sony and Microsoft are preparing a charm offensive to snare the lucrative customer base of established TV and movie-on-demand specialists. After announcing a combined TV tuner and personal video recorder for PS3 in Leipzig last week, Sony has …

Sega’s North American boss Simon Jeffery has forecast that Wii’s low development costs will mean that third-party output on the system will be noticeably more original than that on Xbox 360 and PS3 for the next two years. After Sega’s Mario and Sonic At The Olympic Games took the award …