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WHITE BALL OF DE
ATH Xbox 360, EA Sports and HMV joined forces for a charity football day to promo te 2010 FIFA World Cup . Teams from Activision, Disney, Koch, Microsoft, Nintendo, Son y, Universal, Warner and more manag ed to raise £14,554.89 (they were very exact) for cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“I think we can name a company that is a fruit that is in the news a lot about their arrogance.” SCE Australia’s MD Michael Ephraim oh-so-subtly digs at Apple when asked about Sony’s past attitude
KING OF THE (SAN
D)CASTLE British sand sculptor Pau l Hoggard created a 12ft sand sculpture of the Prince of Persia near Marble Arch. It was made fro m 16 tons of white san d and over 1000 litres of wat er. It took five days and two assistants to finish. And you can bet that some kid came and crushed it onc e finished, then built a bigger one nearby. Well, you’d have to, wouldn’t you?
MCV takes soundings from its Retail Advisory Board on the biggest issues of the day. The current members are...
GAME & Gamestation
Neil Ashurst,
Duncan Cross, Asda
Marc Spence, Best Buy
Don McCabe, CHIPS
Tim Ellis, HMV
Graham Chambers, Amazon
Danielle Fleming, DSGi
Igor Cipolletta, ShopTo
Anthony Stocker, Argos
Stephen Staley, Gameseek
Keith Sharpe, play.com
Joanna Hunt, Tesco
Sarah Jasper, The Hut
Gurdeep Hunjan, Sainsbury’s
Jon Biggs, Morrisons
Phil Moore, Grainger Games
Azeem Sadiq, Comet