QUIZ OF THE YEAR
Question time RETAIL
1. Asda and Tesco now sell used games in their supermarkets. But which other two chains in the UK also began selling pre-owned titles in 2010?
2. Which retail giant demanded suppliers cut prices of new games?
3. Grainger Games opened its Liverpool outlet in October. What number store was this?
4. Which High Street retailer went to the moon this year, and how did it get there?
PEOPLE
5. Which publisher boss admitted “sometimes I sounded like a dick”?
6. Lisa Morgan stepped down as GAME CEO in April, but which other senior exec announced he was to leave at the same time?
7. Which iconic
entrepreneur launched a new venture in the games market this year?
8. Former SCEE president David Reeves retired from Sony in May 2009, but where did he resurface earlier this year?
GAMES
9. Halo: Reach launched this year and sold lots. How many Halo games have been released?
10. What is Bayonetta’s outfit made from?
11. In what era is Call of Duty: Black Ops set?
12. You could trade in a bunch of bananas to get this Wii game. What is it?
How closely have you been reading MCV in 2010? Our quiz looking back at the key events of the year will see if you’ve been playing attention
2010’S BIG LAUNCHES
13. How much did Sony spend on the launch marketing PlayStation Move in the UK?
14. Which video game made £28.9 million in its debut week?
15. Which game did Black Ops unseat as the fastest selling game in the UK?
16. Which UK band helped launch Kinect at GAME in Oxford Street?
PUBLISHING AND INDUSTRY
17. Which of these publishers didn’t have three different No.1s this year? Take-Two, Microsoft, Sony, Square Enix or Ubisoft.
18. ELSPA re-branded itself to UKIE this September. But when was the trade body originally formed?
19. Which UK firm announced it would be returning to video games publishing in January?
20. Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West defected from Activision to sign with EA this spring. But what is the name of their new studio?
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Answers: 1: Best Buy and Argos 2: Sainsbury’s 3: 40 4: GAME opened its Moonbase on PlayStation Home 5: Bobby Kotick 6: COO Terry Scicluna 7: Sir Richard Branson 8: Capcom 9: 6 10: Her hair. Seriously. 11: Cold War 12: Donkey Kong Country Returns 13: £750,000 14: FIFA 11 15: Modern Warfare 2 16: The Wanted 17: Ubisoft 18: 1989 19: BBC 20: Respawn
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