NEWS: DIGEST
THE NEWS IN 140 CHARACTERS We read Twitter so you don’t have to
Sean_o_c This line from an EA email gave me the chills: “Origin lives where you live.”
(Sean O’Connor, PS3Attitude) Saturday, September 17th
benfurneaux Along with music and Blu-ray, GAME is now selling PSN download cards. Soon the walls will be filled with numbered cards like Toys ‘R’ Us. (Ben Furneaux, Turbulenz) Tuesday, September 20th
bodbod Playing Batman: Arkham Asylumon @OnLive I’m flabbergasted. Lag undetectable on my standard broadband connection. Looks and feels perfect.
(David Boddington, Future Publishing) Tuesday, September 20th
Svend_SPOnG I wake up to news of Homefront 2? By Crytek? I’m pretty sure I’m still dreaming. (Svend Joscelyne, Spong) Tuesday, September 20th
danthat Bagsy making Homefront 3.
(Dan Marshall, Size Five Games) Tuesday, September 20th
SimonParkin Hey Metro! Played a load a chess and then thought hard about killing a bunch of blacks. Kthxbye.
(Simon Parkin, freelance journalist) Wednesday, September 21st
ViralNinja The bastards at city hall can keep me out of the MCVtop tweets but I can still sneak in via Off the Record.
(Richie Churchill, 2K Games) Thursday, September 22nd
LeeCash Amazing watching the complete 180 on Twitter from people gushing over OnLive to absolutely raging when it doesn’t work #thefutureisfull (Lee Cash, Demonware) Thursday, September 22nd
Leearigold #egexpo Very well done. The best UK show in terms of gamers being able to play games. Easy layout, no big pointless builds.
(Lee Kirton, Namco Bandai) Thursday, September 22nd
giordanobc No, I can’t attend your event that falls on the same day of Skyrim’s release in November because… er… I have a conference call.
(Giordano Contestabile, PopCap) Friday, September 23rd
THE MOST POPULAR STORIES ON
MCVUK.COM THIS WEEK
Our biggest stories for the week ending Monday,
September 26th
1. INTERVIEW: Rob Bowling Part 1: ‘We compete with ourselves’
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/interview-rob-bowling-part-1-we-compete-with-ourselves/085012
2. Morrisons prices Gears of War 3 at £25
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/morrisons-prices-gears-of-war-3-at-pound-25/084929
3. Tesco fails to match Morrisons’ Gears of War 3 offer
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/tesco-fails-to-match-morrisons-gears-of-war-3-offer/084941
4. Study author brands Metro story “inaccurate”
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/study-author-brands-metro-story-inaccurate/085084
5. Gears of War 3 for £1.99 – the price war begins
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gears-of-war-3-for-pound-1-99-the-price-war-begins/084907
6. FEATURE: Call of Duty’s next phase
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/feature-call-of-duty-s-next-phase/084912
7. GameStation giving Gears of War 3 away for free – under one condition
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gamestation-giving-gears-of-war-3-away-for-free-under-one-condition/084939
8. GameStop’s cheeky answer to online early selling
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gamestop-s-cheeky-answer-to-online-early-selling/084930
9. Yoshida ‘shocked’ by 3DS circle pad design
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/yoshida-shocked-by-3ds-circle-pad-design/084949
10. Gears of War 3 – price roundup
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gears-of-war-3-price-roundup/084996
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FACTS
Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting
1.5m
Pre-orders taken for Battlefield 3
£20.50 The price of Forza 4’s
Season Pass, entitling users to all six planned DLC packs
59m
Zynga’s daily active users for the three months ending June 30th, down from 62m for the same period last year
£25m
Japanese company Rakuten paid £25m for UK online giant
Play.com
9.9%
GAME’s drop in like-for-like sales for the 26 weeks ending July 31st
£57.99
Price of the download version of Driver: San Franciscoon PSN
50m
EA’s The Sims Socialhas now reached more than 50m monthly active users
72%
In-app purchases account for almost three quarters of total App Store revenues. But just four per cent of apps use these microtransactions
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