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FROM THE ARCHIVE September 21, 2001
NEWS Virgin Megastores revamps its games offering by investing £250,000 in space. The firm’s Bart Saunt admitted that POS for certain formats hadn’t been changed in six years. Oops... LEGO announces it will set up a deal that will see the company recognised as the publisher for any LEGO-branded games...
Disney announces its first original title: Ultimate Ridefor the PC. The game will be based on the company’s Imagineering division and allows gamers to create their own rollercoasters... Nintendo admits GameCube’s launch in Japan was quieter than expected but is still rather chuffed with itself for shifting 300,000 units in the console’s opening weekend... Barry Hatch returns to the games industry at the head of new publisher Digital Worldwide, which is already gunning for the European distribution rights for GTA III.
CHARTS All Formats
Resident Evil: Code Veronica..................Capcom PlayStation 2
Resident Evil: Code Veronica..................Capcom Dreamcast
UNICORN SPOTTED Even GAME’s Eugene the Unicorn enjoyed the pit lanes and the Paddock Club. The mythical creature is a hit on the retailer’s Facebook page.
Soldier of Fortune........................................Ubisoft PC FA Premier League Manager 2002.................EA Game Boy Advance Mario Kart: Super Circuit.......................Nintendo
FEATURES To mark the start of the football season, MCV looks at all the footy games due for release within the year. Incredibly, there are a whopping 14 different titles. Aside from the usual FIFA and PES, there is a bunch of management sims (including one from Sky Sports) as well as games from Messrs Beckham and Gerrard.
AND FINALLY... A MCVsurvey finds that almost half the industry wants Microsoft to offer high value bundles at the Xbox’s European launch. Some offer suggestions. Miles Jacobson demands that Championship Manageris bundled.
MCV takes soundings from its Retail Advisory Board on the biggest issues of the day. The current members are...
GANGSTAS AND PLAYAS Games journalists were treated to a day of Mafia II with preview code on-hand and gangster photo opportunities by 2K Games. There was even a blackjack table where attendees could win an iPad. An insider source told MCV: “Everyone had a great time, apart from that tied-up guy.”
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Neil Ashurst, GAME & Gamestation
Andrew Thompson, Asda
Marc Spence, Best Buy
Don McCabe, CHIPS
Tim Ellis, HMV
Keith Sharpe,
play.com
Sarah Jasper, The Hut
Nick Sultanti, Morrisons
Azeem Sadiq, Comet
Graham Chambers, Amazon
Danielle Fleming, DSGi
Igor Cipolletta, ShopTo
Anthony Stocker, Argos
Stephen Staley, Gameseek
Joanna Hunt, Tesco
Gurdeep Hunjan, Sainsbury’s
Phil Moore, Grainger Games
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