REVIEW OF THE YEAR MARCH
BLOCKBUSTER TROUBLE: The US rental chain admits bankruptcy fears and put its UK arm up for sale.
INFINITY WAR: Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West are fired by Activision for ‘insubordination’.
TAX BREAKS ANNOUNCED: Labour announces financial support for developers. Even better, the Lib Dems and Tories say they’ll follow through with it if they win the election. What could go wrong?
APRIL
SEE YA, LISA: GAME CEO Morgan left as the retailer’s profits fell 27 per cent.
HELLO, BEST BUY: The US retail giant opened its first UK store in Thurrock, Essex.
CODEMASTERS SALE: The
publisher’s future was secured
when Indian giant Reliance Big Entertainment bought 50 per cent of the firm.
MAY
MTV ROCKS EUROPE: The Rock Bandpublisher opened a UK office and hired veteran Roy Campbell to operate it.
DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL PASSED: ELSPA was delighted as PEGI becomes legally binding and new anti-piracy measures are proposed.
VOLCANIC ISSUES: The Icelandic volcano grounded planes and held up deliveries.
AND THE MCV WINNERS WERE: At the MCV Awards, Xbox took home the Grand Prix, HMV beat GAME to best High Street Chain and Asda won the inaugural supermarket prize. ..
ARGOS STOCKS SECOND-HAND: Following Tesco and Asda, catalogue retailer Argos started selling pre-owned, too.
DSI XL LAUNCHED: Nintendo released its super-sized DS on March 5th.
MARKET REDEMPTION: Who needs GTA? Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemptionmade a reported £10m in two days.
VIRGIN RETURNS TO GAMES:MCVrevealed that Richard Branson was to open Virgin Gaming – an online game tournament service with cash prizes up for grabs.
24 December 17th 2010
EA SPORTS TACKLES PRE- OWNED: The publisher began charging an online fee to anyone that didn’t buy its video games new.
CHARITY WORK: Codemasters, Square Enix, Sega and Sony teamed- up on a software bundle for GamesAid.
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