Topic: MCV Industry Excellence Awards Winners Announced

[LassePalle]

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."  

[Mario]

Grand Prix award? What's that?

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Most Improved Company - Sega

LOL!

[Bill Aurion]

Most Improved Company - Sega

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

[Nigel]

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Originally posted by: Mario
Grand Prix award? What's that?

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Most Improved Company - Sega

LOL!

[bbruzzes]

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'tHate742]

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 Aurion]

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

[vudu]

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

[TheYoungerPlumber]

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.

[09n]

The British people may have enjoyed it but CUBE magazine and I highly disliked it.

[vudu]

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

[Bill Aurion]

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

[vudu]

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

[Ian Sane]

I give the developer credit if a game is good and the publisher "credit" if the game sucks.

[Gamefreak]

Well I guess Nintendo will have to get the "credit" when Geist comes out huh?
owned

[Mario]

You'll be owned when Geist turns out awesome.

[PaLaDiN]

Isn't Nintendo helping with the development of Geist?

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

[The Omen]

 

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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.