DANCING GEORDIES Ubisoft teamed up with GAME and the Newcastle Dance Centre to drive pre- orders for Just Dance 4with a Just Danceparty last weekend. Gamers of all ages were invited to try out last year’s title, as well as learn real moves from the dance centre team.
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RADIO STARS Stuff getting onto TV – radio is where it’s at these days! Pictured here is Lunch PR’s Kat Osman and Codemasters’ Steve Hood (creative director for F1 2012 ), who attended Radio 1’s Meet The Industry panels on the games industry last week. The pair were called on to discuss career opportunities in gaming. And they weren’t the only famous voices to appear on Radio 1’s various panels – throughout the week, the broadcasters also featured Usher, Dizzee Rascal, Labrinth, Leona Lewis and Plan B. Congrats to Kat and Steve – you’ve made it.
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NEWS Tesco ups the ante in games when it becomes an official stockist of the forthcoming PS2… Sony promises that retailers who missed the platform holder’s presentation will not be excluded from launch stock… The Game Boy is hit by needless discounting as retailers use Pokémon Yellowas a loss leader… Game
AND FINALLY MCV’s latest Jury Service roundtable discusses whether Diablo IIand Grand Prix 3can give the PC market a shot in the arm. Opinion is divided with the more sceptical saying gamers will be too distracted by Xbox hype and the launch of the PS2. Martyn Gibbs, then
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at HMV, says their success (or lack of) will “determine the face of the PC games market for the foreseeable future”… And we have a Reader’s Lives interview with a younger Ian Livingstone, sporting an Eidos-branded Manchester City kit. Did you know his speciality is Thai green curry?
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Boy passes the 100m worldwide sales mark… Infogrames insists it is not in takeover talks with Eidos, although it would like to be… Having acquired Mechwarriordevelopers FASA and golf specialists Access, Microsoft signs a little studio named Bungie. Sounds like a waste of money, right?… UK magazine publisher Haymarket voices an interest in buying Bournemouth-based media firm Paragon Publishing…