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attlefi eld developer DICE considered opening a studio in the UK before opting to launch
its new offi ce in LA. General Manager Karl Magnus
Troedsson told MCV that the fi rm searched globally before settling on LA, but decided against going somewhere ‘just because it was cheaper’. “We ran the whole due diligence on
where we will open a new studio,” he said. “We looked all over the world. “The fi nal reason, and it’s a very individual one, is that we had people in LA already, people who had already worked at DICE Stockholm, and we had people who were going to leave us in Sweden and go to LA to work for other companies. So there was a foundation of people we trusted there. “Britain was defi nitely one of the
places we looked at, and it would have been closer to Stockholm. But in the end we decided for LA. Maybe it was because of the weather?” he joked. “The tax breaks are in the UK and in Canada. But in the end we are not doing this to save money. We are doing this to fi nd the right people to build the best games we can.“
BUZZFEED, UBISOFT & MORE SET FOR LONDON CONFERENCE IN NOVEMBER
LAST WEEK we shared the details for our fi rst major games retail conference, Games Retail 2020. But there’s an important date
in the diary for marketeers and media types: November 19th, the day of London Games Conference. We return to One Wimpole
Street, London, but this year our long-running event looking at the overall games market this year will deep dive into issues surrounding engagement and reach. We’ve already reached far and wide for our fi rst wave of speakers, with Buzzfeed, Ubisoft and Eurogamer Expo off ering up some of the fi rst
case studies on reaching gamers in the digital age and how to keep them engaged before, during and after release. Favourites from last year, such as Twitch, will be back too. Find out more at www.
londongamesconference.com – early bird rate on tickets is currently £199 (until the end of September).
TOP ONLINE STORIES THIS WEEK
Our biggest stories for the week ending July 8th
1 ‘Huge proportion’ of PS4 owners are yet to play The Last of Us, says Sony
2 Xbox One sales pass 5m units as PS4 hits 9m, report claims
3 THE BIG GAME: The Last of Us Remastered
4 Finnish Hearthstone tournament bans female players as part of eff ort to make it legitimate
5 Indie retailers can now sell Nintendo download games
UK RETAIL TOP 10 DOWN
Grid Autosport skids out of the Top Ten
PRE-ORDER TOP 10 SPOSORED BY
1 2 Watch Dogs
3 FIFA 14 4 Titanfall
UP
2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil do the double and rise up the charts
FIFA 14 and
5 Wolfenstein: The New Order 6 Call of Duty: Ghosts 7 EA Sports UFC
8 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil 9 Minecraft PlayStation 3 Edition 10 Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition
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SNIPER ELITE 3
EA
Ubisoft EA EA
Bethesda Activision EA EA
Sony Microsoft
1 2 Destiny Inc Beta (PS4)
3 Destiny Inc Beta (XO)
4 Halo: The Master Chief Collection (XO) 5 Diablo III (PS4)
6 Project Cars (PS4) 7 Forza Horizon 2 (XO) 8 Grand Theft Auto V (PS4)
THE LAST OF US REMASTERED (PS4)
SONY
Activision Activision Microsoft Blizzard
Bandai Namco Microsoft Rockstar
9 Persona Q Shadow of the Labyrinth (3DS) NIS America 10 FIFA 15 Ultimate Team (XO)
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July 11th 2014
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