James Lee
16:29 (BST)
26/02/2009
MCV awards finalists named
Intent Media has unveiled the finalists for this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards, set to take place on April 23 at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London.
The event will see 17 awards given out to a range of businesses within the games industry. This year's awards see the addition of new retail and marketing categories, including: High Street Retailer, Online Retailer, Star Store, Store Manager of the Year and Retail Innovation.
"These categories demonstrate the diversity of games retail and give everyone selling games to the public a chance to share in the success of their company or their own store," commented Stuart Dinsey, Intent Media's managing director.
"We have also responded to requests from the industry to introduce a Store Manager of the Year award, which we know will be fiercely contested."
Dinsey added: "More and more people attend the MCV Industry Excellence Awards every year, which is a real testament to their relevance. Lobbying for this year's event has been fiercer than ever – so the finalists can feel particularly proud of themselves."
"Our esteemed panel of industry experts, bosses and bigwigs will now retire to consider their votes, with the winners revealed on April 23rd. It's going to be a raucous night, made even more special with the help of our fantastic sponsors – and I can't wait to see the games industry live it up there once again."
Full list of nominees follows:
Retail Innovation
- HMV Gamerbase
- HMV Re/Play
- Play.com Live
- Lovefilm rental
- CHIPS accessories
Store Manager
- Rupert Banning-Lover – HMV Birmingham Fort
- Richard Pascoe – Chips Hereford
- Martin Tuckwood – Asda Derby
- Mike Barnes/Pearl Robinson – GAME Oxford Street
- Gary Noakes - Gameplayer
High Street Retailer
- HMV
- GAME
- Gamestation
- Chips
- Asda
Star Store
- GAME Oxford Street
- HMV Liverpool One
- Gamestation Birmingham New Street
- Chips Dudley
- Asda Derby
Online Retailer
- Game.co.uk
- Shopto.net
- Play.com
- Amazon
- Gameseek
- The Hut
Sales Team
- Activision Blizzard
- Sega
- EA
- Ubisoft
- Microsoft
- Nintendo
Sales Triumph
- Crisis Core – Square Enix
- Imagine range - Ubisoft
- Fallout 3 – Bethesda Softworks
- Cooking Mama 2 – 505 Games
- Carnival Games – 2K Games
- Ben 10 – D3P
Games Publisher
- Nintendo
- EA
- Ubisoft
- Microsoft
- Sega
- Activision
Development Team
- Lionhead
- Blackrock Studios
- Codemasters
- Rockstar North
- Media Molecule
Distribution Team
- Koch
- Gem
- Centresoft
- Advantage
- Music Box Leisure
New Game Brand
- GRID - Codemasters
- Pure – Disney Interactive Studios
- Dead Space - EA
- Professor Layton - Nintendo
- Little Big Planet - SCE
PR Team
- EA
- Microsoft
- Capcom
- Nintendo/Red
- Sony
- Ubisoft
Game Campaign
- Guitar Hero World Tour – Activision Blizzard
- GTA IV - Rockstar
- FIFA - EA
- Fallout 3 – Bethesda Softworks
- Wii Fit - Nintendo
- Call Of Duty: World at War – Activision Blizzard
Marketing Team
- EA
- Microsoft
- Activision Blizzard
- Sega
- Nintendo
Marketing Innovation
- FIFA 4 min ad
- All Singing, All Dancing, All Disney campaign
- Rising Star Home of Japanese Games
- MS New Xbox Live Experience
- Sony online community work
Retail Advisory Board Special Recognition
- Darren Bowen – Ubisoft
- Andy Yates – Nintendo
- John Clark – Sega
- Mark Howson – SCE UK
- Jonathan Grimes - Microsoft
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