NEWS: DIGEST
THE WEEK IN 140 CHARACTERS The Tweets you might have missed in the last seven days
@schillingc The boy just made up a new joke: “What do you call Pokémon that pick their nose? Bogey-mon!”
(Chris Schilling, freelance journalist) Thursday, July 30th
@witenoyze Am stupidly excited for BioShock Infinite’s Burial At Sea DLC. If it disappoints I’ll never look forward to anything ever again. For 5 mins.
(Nick Cowen, The Guardian) Wednesday, July 31st
@kobunheat Nintendo only shipped 160,000 Wii Us worldwide in Q2: 90K Japan, 60K Americas, 10K everywhere else. Course, that’ll happen with no games. (Chris Kohler, Wired) Wednesday, July 31st
@SpectralHands Dead fox on the pavement on the way to work, immediately thought it could be a viral stunt for Metal Gear 5. Been doing this job too long.
(Ian Dickson, LunchPR) Wednesday, July 31st
@PG_kamiya :O RT @NoMagRyan: Can’t believe PG_kamiya wasn’t nominated for best tweeter. Maybe it’ll happen next week... in MCV...
(Hideki Kamiya, Platinum Games) Thursday, August 1st
@cymrogav Team @RegularFeatures are all up in the GMAs. We’re like the Renford Rejects of the games industry.
(Gavin Murphy, Future Publishing) Thursday, August 1st
@NathanDitum Best thing this week was getting my house deposit back. The other best thing was passing 60k subs and getting a GMA nomination. (Nathan Ditum, PlayStation Access) Thursday, August 1st
@UkieAndyT Really hope @gamewank_jim actually wins Top Tweeter at the GMAs. Then they get Ian McKellen to read out a selection of his finest tweets.
(Andy Tomlinson, UKIE) Thursday, August 1st
@EdRummers Proud of @lidiarumley: doors are open to her new PR business after 18 years of being in the games industry!
(Ed Rumley, Chillingo) Friday, August 2nd
@JaminEatWorld Managed to get McFly’s ‘Obviously’ stuck in my head except I’ve replaced the word ‘Obviously’ with ‘Oculus Rift’ and I need to get a life.
(Jamin Smith, Born Ready GameS) Monday, August 5th
Our biggest stories for the week ending Monday, August 5th THE MOST POPULAR STORIES ON
MCVUK.COM THIS WEEK
1. Minecraft 360 claims first UK No.1; Pikmin 3 debuts in 2nd
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/minecraft-360-claims-first-uk-no-1-pikmin- 3-debuts-in-2nd/0119296
2. Games Media Awards 2013: The Finalists
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ games-media-awards-2013- the-finalists/0119490
3. EA signs up both Liverpool and Barcelona football clubs
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ ea-signs-up-both-liverpool- and-barcelona-football- clubs/0119497
4. Asda: We do support Nintendo, despite Wii U drop
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ asda-we-still-support- nintendo-despite-wii-u- drop/0119311
5. Here’s how Nintendo rescued the 3DS
www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ here-s-how-nintendo- rescued-the-3ds/0119437
europesales@pdp.com www.pdp.com
PRESENTS FACTS 5 SECOND
Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting
160,000
The number of Wii U consoles sold in the three months ending June 2013
853MHz
Since E3, Microsoft has upped the Xbox One’s GPU clock speed from 800MHz. That’s a whole 53 extra MHz
$1.05bn
Activision Blizzard’s net revenue over the three months ending June 2013, just shy of the $1.08bn taken in the same period last year.
4m
Copies of BioShock Infinite sold worldwide to date
PDP Design & Manufacture the Rock Candy Controllers for PS3, Wii & Xbox
www.mcvuk.com
November 16th 2012
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