Posts Categorized: Gaming

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GAME Over?

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Let me open by being perfectly clear. I don’t want GAME to go to the wall. I don’t want the store staff and people who don’t get to make the big decisions to lose their jobs. I don’t think I’ve seen any reporting or comments by anybody who genuinely wants that to happen, either. Anybody [...]

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The Digital Dodge

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In this week’s MCV (Friday, January 13th), Michael French and Christopher Dring lead off the issue with a passionate call for digital providers to support The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) in their endeavours to create a digital game sales chart. UKIE is currently in charge of creating the weekly boxed game charts, and [...]

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GAME Fail

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In this week’s (6th January 2012) MCV, there’s a solid editorial piece by James Batchelor about the Government-commissioned Portas Review, which was designed to find out why our High Streets are failing, why stores are left empty and – simply – why people don’t want to head out shopping on a Saturday when they can [...]

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Televisual Stimulation

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“We’re all being lobotomized by this country’s most influential industry, that’s just thrown in the towel on any endeavour to do anything that doesn’t include the courting of 12-year-old boys. Not even the smart 12-year-olds — the stupid ones, the idiots. Of which there are plenty, thanks in no small measure to this network. So [...]

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Tooth Be Told

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The site I run (Kinectronic) focuses on one platform. In fact, it focuses on a sub-platform of that platform. We cover Kinect games, accessories and hardware, and nothing else. But mine is not the only site. In this field, there are two or three sites that are competing for visitors and page views, as you’d [...]