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Title: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: LassePalle on April 08, 2005, 03:18:28 AM
Find out what categories Nintendo won.

MCV INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2005 WINNERS ANNOUNCED  


 Individuals within the UK computer and video games industry recognised for excellence  


 Friday 8 April 2005/... Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and GAME enjoyed a night of triumph at the MCV Industry Excellence Awards as the UK games industry recognised its top performers at the event held in central London.  


Hosted by Channel Four News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the MCV Industry Excellence Awards brings together the leaders of the £2 billion UK computer and video games industry. The prestigious set of accolades were created to acknowledge the innovation and creativity of people who run the key operational divisions of the games industry's companies and organisations.  


The winners of the MCV Industry Excellence Awards 2005 are:


2005 MCV AWARD WINNERS


 RETAIL


  Independent Retailer - The Software Store  


 Retail Buying Team - GAME  


 Online Retailer - Amazon  


 General Retailer - HMV  


 Most Improved Retailer - Tesco  


 Specialist Retailer - Gamestation  


 MARKETING  


New Games Brand - Nintendo DS  


 Games Brand - Grand Theft Auto  


 TV Campaign - PlayStation  


Trade Marketing Team - Nintendo


  Marketing Team - Activision  


 PEOPLE & INDUSTRY  


 PR Team - Microsoft  


 Magazine Team - GamesTM  


 UK Development Team - Rockstar North   Distribution Team - Centresoft  


Sales Team - Activision  


Games Industry Newcomer - Hip Interactive  


Unsung Hero - ELSPA/Barrington Harvey (Manhunt)  


 Most Improved Company - Sega  


 Grand Prix Award: Nintendo


 Stuart Dinsey, managing director of Intent Media, which publishes trade weekly MCV, said: "These were hotly-contested accolades with over 100 industry judges polled across 20 categories. Last night was about celebrating the great and the good of the UK games industry and recognising those that have contributed the most to the business over the last 12 months and our congratulations go out to all finalists and winners."  

Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Mario on April 08, 2005, 04:12:52 AM
Grand Prix award? What's that?
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Most Improved Company - Sega

LOL!
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 08, 2005, 05:07:42 AM
Most Improved Company - Sega

Seconds a "WHAT. THE. ****." award...
Title: RE:MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Nigel on April 08, 2005, 06:55:11 AM
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Originally posted by: Mario
Grand Prix award? What's that?
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Most Improved Company - Sega

LOL!


Title: RE:MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: bbruzzes on April 08, 2005, 07:05:21 AM
I'm also scratching my head over Sega being considered most improved game company. The only thing that would justify this would be the Sega 2K Sports series and they don't even own it anymore!  
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Don'tHate742 on April 08, 2005, 08:24:51 AM
Dude....Shadow has a gun...I don't see what's so hard to comprehend. I mean come on! It's a f**king machine gun in a hedgehog's hand!

Most improved company ever....
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 08, 2005, 10:10:00 AM
Remember, people...This is the region of the world that loved Sonic Heroes for some moronic reason...
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: vudu on April 08, 2005, 10:46:08 AM
Astro Boy: Omega Factor more than makes up for the horror that was Sonic Heros.
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on April 08, 2005, 11:35:03 AM
Astro Boy Omega Factor was also largely developed by a non-Sega development team known as Treasure.

I think this report may be referring to Sega as most improved financially.  After all, these categories are more on the business side of things.
Title: RE:MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: 09n on April 08, 2005, 11:38:21 AM
The British people may have enjoyed it but CUBE magazine and I highly disliked it.
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: vudu on April 08, 2005, 11:43:11 AM
TYP - I'm fully aware of that.  However, Sega published it, and therefore I'm sure they get credit for it.
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 08, 2005, 11:58:24 AM
So EA gets credit for TimeSplitters 3 as well?  Nuh uh, that's not how things are run in MY world...
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: vudu on April 08, 2005, 12:22:39 PM
I'm not saying they deserve credit.  I'm just saying they get credit as far as crappy awards go.
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Ian Sane on April 08, 2005, 12:36:22 PM
I give the developer credit if a game is good and the publisher "credit" if the game sucks.
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Gamefreak on April 08, 2005, 07:33:26 PM
Well I guess Nintendo will have to get the "credit" when Geist comes out huh?
owned
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: Mario on April 08, 2005, 10:30:40 PM
You'll be owned when Geist turns out awesome.
Title: RE: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: PaLaDiN on April 08, 2005, 11:19:16 PM
Isn't Nintendo helping with the development of Geist?

Which would mean they'll get partial credit either way.
Title: RE:MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Post by: The Omen on April 09, 2005, 05:41:29 AM
 
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So EA gets credit for TimeSplitters 3 as well? Nuh uh, that's not how things are run in MY world...


EA gets partial credit since it was given to Tiburon studios for QA testing.  And they bugged the hell out of it.