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The games of 2007
January 30
MCV presents the top selling games of 2007, courtesy of ELSPA/ChartTrack...
2. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
4. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
5. More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
6. Halo 3 (Microsoft)
7. The Simpsons Game (Electronic Arts)
8. Wii Play (Nintendo)
9. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
10. WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2008 (THQ)
11. Need for Speed: Prostreet (Electronic Arts)
12. Cooking Mama (505 Games)
13. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
14. Spider-Man 3 (Activision)
15. Need for Speed: Carbon (Electronic Arts)
16. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami)
17. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
18. FIFA ‘07 (Electronic Arts)
19. Forza Motorsport 2 (Microsoft)
20. The Sims 2: Pets (Electronic Arts)
21. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar)
22. Transformers: The Game (Activision)
23. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (Electronic Arts)
24. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo)
25. Cars (THQ)
26. The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts)
27. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Disney Interactive Studios)
28. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (Electronic Arts)
29. Ratatouille (THQ)
30. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
31. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
32. Football Manager 2008 (Sega)
33. Resistance: Fall of Man (SCEE)
34. LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Lucasarts)
35. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts)
36. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Eidos)
37. Big Brain Academy (Nintendo)
38. High School Musical: Sing it! (Disney Interactive Studios)
39. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
40. MotorStorm (SCEE)
41. The Sims 2: Castaway (Electronic Arts)
42. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Electronic Arts)
43. Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
44. Pokemon Diamond (Nintendo)
45. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Vivendi)
46. MySims (Electronic Arts)
47. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
48. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
49. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubisoft)
50. Bratz: Forever Diamondz (THQ)
- For an in-depth analysis of what all this means, click here.
Other Interviews
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Jan 31 - DFC Intelligence
- Format breakdown
Jan 30 - The games of 2007
- Top of its GAME
Jan 29 - Lisa Morgan, CEO; David Thomas, Deputy CEO and Group Finance Director
- INTERVIEW: David Reeves
Jan 25 - Three for all
- How to win an MCV Award:
Jan 25 - Special Awards
- How to win an MCV Award:
Jan 24 - PR & Marketing
- How to win an MCV Award
Jan 24 - People And Industry
- How to win an MCV Award
Jan 24 - Retail
- Just the job
Jan 22 - Recruitment Special
- INTERVIEW: Rod Cousens
Jan 17 - A talk with the CEO of Codemasters
- Atari's road to recovery
Jan 17 - Patrick Leleu
- INTERVIEW: 1C - A Russian Revolution
Jan 16 - Nikolay Baryshnikov (1C)
- UK GAMES MARKET 2007
Jan 10 - The definitive report
- What are you looking forward to in 2008?
Jan 09 - Industry execs reveal their hopes for the year
- MCV's Quiz of the Year 2007
Jan 03 - Your chance to win a Nintendo Wii
- INTERVIEW: When Martyn met David
Jan 02 - Gamestation's Martyn Gibbs speaks to Nintendo's David Yarnton
- All I want for Christmas...
Dec 19 - MCV asks games industry leaders for their top three Xmas wishes...
- ACTIVISION BLIZZARD: The deal that shook the industry
Dec 17 - An anaylisis of last month's gaming super-merger
- MCV Retail Survey 2007
Dec 13 - in association with Channel Advantage
- Mystery Shopper - Infinite Group
Dec 12 - Oxford Street
- Monthly Chart Analysis – November
Dec 07 - Courtesy of ChartTrack
- Delivering the goods
Dec 06 - Distribution Special Focus
- The power of the gaming sequel
Dec 06 - How gaming is putting Hollywood to shame
- GAME GAMESTATION ENQUIRY
Dec 05 - The Provisional Findings in full
- Games Marketing Forum
Dec 03 - Event report
- Taking on the big boys
Nov 30 - Smaller Publisher Special Focus
- DVD Gaming
Nov 29 - The forgotten platform?
- INTERVIEW - IGA Worldwide
Nov 28 - The in-game advertising sector
- Mystery Shopper
Nov 27 - Camden
- Warner Bros & TT Games
Nov 26 - Josh Berger (UK President and MD, Warner), Tom Stone (MD, TT Games)
- Curran affairs
Nov 23 - Ian Curran
- A look at the battle between retail and downloads
Nov 20 - UKTI Report: Revenue Channels
- The Halo Effect
Nov 16 - Chris Lewis
- INTERVIEW: In2Games
Nov 15 - Harry Holmwood
- Monthly Chart Analysis – October
Nov 14 - Courtesy of ChartTrack
- LGF: EA's 'Be the One'
Nov 12 - EA storms Trafalgar Square
- INTERVIEW: Nintendo
Nov 09 - David Yarnton
- INTERVIEW: Woolworths
Nov 07 - Gerry Berkley
- 30 Under 30
Nov 05 - The definitive list of the top 30 hot young execs in the industry...
- Just child's play? The Byron Report
Nov 02 - Dr Tanya Byron
- The Midas touch
Nov 01 - Adrian Clews
- INTERVIEW: Mad Catz
Oct 30 - Brian Andersen
- Screen Digest - Q4 Prediction
Oct 29 - Ed Barton
- Expanding Empire
Oct 25 - Ian Higgins
- INTERVIEW: Popcorn Arcade
Oct 24 - Stewart Green
- VIOLENCE IN GAMES: The BBFC
Oct 24 - Gianni Zamo
- Violence in Games Special
Oct 22 - Mum's the Word
- INTERVIEW: Ray Maguire, SCE UK
Oct 19 - Heralding the arrival of the new £299 40GB PS3
- Monthly Chart Analysis - September
Oct 17 - Courtesy of ChartTrack
- Trade-in Places
Oct 16 - A look at the pre-owned software market
- INTERVIEW: Activision
Oct 15 - Robin Kaminsky
- MCV INTERVIEW: Microsoft
Oct 12 - Neil Thompson
- Is Google trying out patents?
Oct 11 - A closer look at Google's gaming patents
- Does PS2's long tail need a snip?
Oct 10 - The way ahead for Sony's greatest
- Ads in game: the facts
Oct 09 - IGA
- The SCi's the limit
Oct 08 - Jane Cavanagh (CEO), Phil Rogers (Chief Financial Officer)
- INTERVIEW: GAME
Oct 04 - Lisa Morgan, CEO; David Thomas, Deputy CEO & Group Finance Director
- GMAs: Specialist Games Media Finalists (Online)
Oct 02 - Games Media Awards Special
- GMAs: Specialist Games Media Finalists (Print)
Oct 02 - Games Media Awards Special
- GMAs: Mainstream Media Finalists
Oct 02 - Games Media Awards Special
- London Games Festival
Oct 01 - Keith Ramsdale
- Gem's evolution
Sep 28 - Chris Peacock & Simon Lee
- System 3 revs up
Sep 25 - A look at System 3's Ferrari Challenge
- INTERVIEW: Sega of America
Sep 21 - Simon Jeffery
- Midway looks to big Q4
Sep 19 - David Zucker
- Vivendi's French evolution
Sep 11 - Pascal Brochier
- Why buy SCi?
Sep 07 - MCV looks at why the three favourites might bid...
- Masters of their universe
Sep 05 - Andy Payne and Garry Williams
- Warner's own Superman
Sep 03 - Ron Scott
- MEDIA SPECIAL
Aug 29 - ABC Analysis
- History repeating itself
Aug 28 - The Rise of Retro Gaming
- Political Games - Part 2
Aug 24 - Margaret Hodge
- Political Games - Part 1
Aug 24 - Jeremy Hunt
- Disney's Joy Story
Aug 23 - Matt Carroll
- The rise of Mac gaming
Aug 22 - Return of the Mac
- Leipzig
Aug 21 - MCV's guide to the show:
- A Smart Korea Move
Aug 17 - Geoff Heath
- Walking on air
Aug 15 - Jim Scott
- Back to School Special
Aug 14 - Educating Retail
- UK July video games sales
Aug 13 - ChartTrack
- Vital Statistics
Aug 10 - Quarterly publisher financial data
- EA's Russian Revolution
Aug 09 - Peter Laughton
- MCV's Mystery Shopper
Aug 09 - Oxford Street
- The return of Activision
Aug 02 - Joerg Trouvain
- The Price is Right
Jul 31 - Budget software focus
- Say Halo wave goodbye
Jul 27 - Peter Moore
- View from the top
Jul 25 - Kaz Hirai
- Ahead of the GAME
Jul 24 - Lisa Morgan
- European Champion
Jul 23 - Jens Uwe Intat
- Sony: Home and dry
Jul 20 - MCV's E3 '07 round-up (Part 3)
- Nintendo: Shiny happy people
Jul 20 - MCV's E3 '07 round-up (Part 2)
- Microsoft: Moore the merrier
Jul 20 - MCV's E3 '07 round-up (Part 1)
- The US should learn from the UK
Jul 18 - Jack Thompson
- 2007's Magic Numbers
Jul 17 - MCV's look at ChartTrack's 2007 UK market stats...
- News analysis:
Jul 13 - Is Government listening as UK developers cry: 'Give us a (tax) break'?
- How the West is won
Jul 11 - An insight into the North American and European markets
- MCV's essential E3 guide
Jul 10 - E3 2007: The Ones to Watch
- NoE limits
Jul 06 - Laurent Fischer
- Manhunt 2 ban erodes civil liberties
Jul 03 - Adam Hartley
- Star Quality
Jul 02 - Martin Defries
- How to Play a blinder
Jun 27 - Gian Luzio
- Open for business
Jun 26 - Barry Hatch
- 505’s recipe for success
Jun 25 - Ian Howe
- Ubisoft's casual revolution
Jun 22 - Mat Quaeck
- Device City
Jun 21 - The peripherals sector
- The state of Play
Jun 19 - David Reeves
- THQ’s win-win situation
Jun 18 - James Dixon
- What can we learn from Second Life?
Jun 14 - Philip Rosedale, Catherine Smith
- MCVuk.com relaunch
Jun 05 - A user's guide to the site
- The Nintendo difference
Jun 01 - David Yarnton, Dawn Paine
- Mine’s a Double
May 31 - Tim Ellis
- Thinking Outside the Box
May 31 - The world of digital distribution
- Introducing the GMAs
May 31 - What are the Games Media Awards?
- Empire Strikes Back
May 31 - Ian Higgins
- Vivendi Goes Universal
May 30 - Adam Roberts
- Going Live
May 30 - Kevin Unangst
- No surrender
May 30 - Lisa Morgan, David Thomas
- Massively Ambitious
May 30 - Dirk Metzger
- The Waiting Game
May 30 - Rob Murphy
- Choices’ voice
May 30 - Anthony Skitt
- Atari’s Online Revolution
Apr 13 - Chris Bergstresser
- Live and let Live
Mar 30 - Chris Lewis
- Asia Specific
Mar 30 - Martin Good, Ian Curran and Rodney Block
- The third coming
Mar 23 - Ray Maguire
- Rise & Rise
Mar 23 - David Zucker
- Show me the money
Mar 16 - Bruce Hack
- The Masters Plan
Mar 09 - Rod Cousens
- Another supermarket sweep?
Mar 09 - Richard Searling
- The THQ & A
Mar 02 - Roy Campbell
- The Euro(gamer) vision
Feb 23 - Rupert Loman
- Easy as ABC
Feb 23 - Robert Price
- The French Revolution
Jan 26 - Jon Rosenblatt
- Blizzard’s Wizard
Jan 26 - Itzik Ben Bassat
- Capcom Rising
Jan 19 - Mark Beaumont
- Electronic Charts
Jan 12 - Keith Ramsdale