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MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced

April 8, 2005, 5:18 am EDT
Total comments: 17

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."

Talkback

MarioApril 08, 2005

Grand Prix award? What's that?

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Most Improved Company - Sega

LOL!

Bill AurionApril 08, 2005

Most Improved Company - Sega

Seconds a "WHAT. THE. ****." award...

NigelApril 08, 2005

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Originally posted by: Mario
Grand Prix award? What's that?
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Most Improved Company - Sega

LOL!


bbruzzesApril 08, 2005

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!

Don'tHate742April 08, 2005

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....

Bill AurionApril 08, 2005

Remember, people...This is the region of the world that loved Sonic Heroes for some moronic reason...

vuduApril 08, 2005

Astro Boy: Omega Factor more than makes up for the horror that was Sonic Heros.

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.

09nApril 08, 2005

The British people may have enjoyed it but CUBE magazine and I highly disliked it. face-icon-small-tongue.gif

vuduApril 08, 2005

TYP - I'm fully aware of that. However, Sega published it, and therefore I'm sure they get credit for it.

Bill AurionApril 08, 2005

So EA gets credit for TimeSplitters 3 as well? Nuh uh, that's not how things are run in MY world... face-icon-small-smile.gif

vuduApril 08, 2005

I'm not saying they deserve credit. I'm just saying they get credit as far as crappy awards go.

Ian SaneApril 08, 2005

I give the developer credit if a game is good and the publisher "credit" if the game sucks. face-icon-small-smile.gif

GamefreakApril 08, 2005

Well I guess Nintendo will have to get the "credit" when Geist comes out huh?
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MarioApril 08, 2005

You'll be owned when Geist turns out awesome.

PaLaDiNApril 08, 2005

Isn't Nintendo helping with the development of Geist?

Which would mean they'll get partial credit either way.

The OmenApril 09, 2005

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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.


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