Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association

ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) and Chart-Track GfK have released information about 2009's best-selling video games in the UK. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and FIFA 10 held off Nintendo Wii games to score...

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...racing game released since 2007 and benefiting from limited availability (the PSP is the only other system to have the title) and largely positive reviews. Source: Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association Post a Comment

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...Japan game industry contracted 6.9 percent in 2009, generating YEN542.6 billion ($5.91 billion) in revenue for the year. A day later, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association said that UK industry figures experienced an...

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...Man's Chest ($1.07bn). Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is also the best-selling videogame of 2009 in the UK, according to industry body Elspa. "The phenomenal success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was undoubtedly one of the leading...

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...leading entertainment stories of the year and firmly established videogames as one of the leading forms of entertainment in the UK," said Michael Rawlinson, Director General, Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA).

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...games console companies were set for a lacklustre Christmas as the console market matures. Sony's figures echoed research from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, the UK industry body, which found that the PS3...

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...during the 2009 calendar year, and as with Japan, the year that was could not keep up with 2008. Citing figures provided by GfK Chart-Track, ELSPA said total industry sales, including hardware, software, and accessories, amounted to GBP3.311...

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...of their media and public stature remains extant. One organisation looking to boost the games industry's reputation is Elspa, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. "We are working to continue to raise the profile...

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...Rod Cousens, who was made a Commander of the British Empire, and Paul Jackson, formerly of Electronic Arts and currently of ELSPA (the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association), who can now put OBE after his name (as an...

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...the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his long service at EA and on the board of the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (Elspa). He is currently head of specialist game firm Rail Simulator. An OBE was also...

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