OFF THE RECORD
This week, Members of Parliament get to grips with video games, Lionel Messi’s secret FIFA affair exposed and EA Sports wins a place in the Guinness World Records. Plus plenty of Off The Record regulars including Industry Gamertags, From The Archive and a Tag-Team Interview between GAME’s Martyn Gibbs and EA’s Keith Ramsdale
GOVERNMENT GAMERS
Any doubts that politicians are just big kids were put to rest by the Parliament Games Day. Organised by pressure group Gamers’ Voice, the event saw MPs – including Ed Vaizey (left) and the camera-shy Keith Vaz – flock to try out Kinect, Move and more. Several policy debates were settled with Conservative John Whittingdale and Lib Dem Don Foster going head-to-head (pictured above left).
FROM THE ARCHIVE... ELEVEN YEARS AGO NEWS
MCV January 21st 2000
Eidos attempts to reverse its fiscal misfortunes by announcing it will be bringing its latest Tomb Raidertitles to Sega Dreamcast... Infogrames finalises its acquisition of GTI by making the publisher’s Hammersmith office the base for all operations in Europe... 3DO prepares for its European launch with no less than seven Army Mentitles... John Menzies blames poor games sales over Christmas for a drop in its share price... Safeway and Sainsbury’s announce plans to stock PlayStation games...
CHARTS: ALL FORMATS 1. FIFA
2000.........................................EA.............................................PSX, PC 2. Tomorrow Never Dies.................EA
.....................................................PSX 3. Tomb Raider:
Revelation...........Eidos.......................................PSX, PC 4. Champ Manager 99/00............Eidos...................................................PC 5.
Driver....................................................GT Interactive
....................PSX, PC
AND FINALLY
In our latest Bluffer’s Guide feature, we dispel the confusion around WAP and its potential uses, as well as the possibilities it holds for the games market. Sadly, we weren’t quite prophetic enough to picture anything like 3G and 4G connections or the iPhone – we didn’t even have colour in 2000. But we did say: “games on phones... it’s a massive market”. Called it.
RETAIL ADVISORY BOARD MCV takes soundings from its Retail Advisory Board on the biggest issues in
Neil Ashurst, GAME & Gamestation 56 January 21st 2011
Andrew Thompson, Asda
James Cooke, Best Buy
Don McCabe, CHIPS
Tim Ellis, HMV
Keith Sharpe,
Play.com
Sarah Jasper, The Hut
Nick Sultanti, Morrisons
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