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The number of Gamescom attendees reached an all-time high at the 2010 expo with more than a quarter of a million attending the show. A total of 254,000 people made their way to Gamescom 2010 – up from last year’s 245,000. And of the 2010 figure just 18,900 were trade …

It didn’t pass the finishing line quite as fast as Chart-Track had predicted, but at long last Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has cemented its position as the best selling game of all time in the UK. It does so after 41 weeks on the market, of which …

This year’s show has only just begun, but Gamescom 2011 has already been dated. The trade and consumer fair will return next year on August 17th and run until August 21st. Once again, it will take place in Cologne, Germany. The dates were revealed through advertisements at this year’s event, …

Konami has announced that its Kinect dancing game, Dance Masters, will come to Europe this November. Now named DanceEvolution, the game is set to go head-to-head with Harmonix’s Dance Central. The title is on show at Gamescom in Cologne. As an expert in the rhythm-based genre with games such as …

Attendees at Gamescom 2010 can now view the schedule of key events with dates and times of press conferences, tournaments and more. The show runs from August 18th to 22nd with Tuesday 17th dedicated to members of the press. Here’s the full events schedule: Tuesday August 17th – 12.30pm – …

This year’s Gamescom event will boast more exhibitors from more countries than ever before, the organisers have confirmed. Gamescom kicks off on Wednesday August 18th at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. MCV will be offering unprecedented coverage of the event and is operating an MCV News Zone throughout the show, with …

The Hut and Incomm have joined IGN, Screen Digest and ELSPA in backing the UK’s biggest games industry conference. Following on from last year’s enormous success, the London Games Conference is focusing on shifts in revenue streams. Special attention will be paid to the impact of digital distribution, multi-player online …

After what the LA Times describes as a brawl” between Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick and Californian lawyer Patricia Glaser, the outspoken games executive has emerged on the losing side of a three-year court battle. In 2007 a flight attendant named Cynthia Madvig filed a lawsuit in the LA County …

Namco Bandai and Nordic Games have become the latest publishers to support this year’s Games Media Awards at the Bloomsbury Ballroom on Thursday, October 14th. Both will be helping the winners celebrate and the losers drown their sorrows by pushing singing and drinking to the top of the After Show …

The Xbox 360 S has enjoyed a bumper launch in the UK, with sales monitor GfK Chart-Track stating that the machine has achieved the biggest launch in the UK for a ‘revised’ home console”. The slimmed down unit arrived in the UK on Friday carrying an RRP of 199.99. Several …