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Nintendo’s 3DS could save the struggling UK games market, claim industry bosses. Worrying figures from GfK Chart-Track this week revealed that the UK games market contracted 13 per cent year-on-year in 2010 – down 29 per cent since the Wii/DS boom of 2008. 2.875 billion was generated from software, hardware …
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Ninja Theory uses Unreal Engine 3 to double down on creativity
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Game employment in US state rockets after govt aid
Read More »Sega launches urinal console
It’s new hardware, but possibly not as you expected it. Former platform holder Sega has launched a new range of machines in Japan… that attach to male urinals. Wired reports that the new devices, called ‘Toylets’, have been rolled out for testing at a number of locations in Tokyo. Each …
Read More »Mac App Store goes live
The Mac version of the Apple App Store has this afternoon gone live around the world. The online portal, highly similar to the iOS version in terms of function and presentation, comes bundled with Mac OSX update v10.6.6 It is said that 1,000 free and paid-for apps are already available …
Read More »Apple opens Mac App Store
70 per cent royalty rate on offer for app devs
Read More »Pro Evo deal for Windows Phone 7
PES 2011 arriving on the mobile platform
Read More »Tomb Raider Trilogy dated
Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that The Tomb Raider Trilogy will exclusively hit PS3 on March 25th in the UK. The SKU includesHD remakes of both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversay as well Tomb Raider Underworld, which has previously had an HD release on PS3 and Xbox 360. …
Read More »GameStop reports like-for-like Xmas gains
Global games retail giant GameStop has reported a 3.4 per cent like-for-like sales boost for the nine weeks ending January 1st. Overall the retailer saw 5.4 per cent growth compared to Christmas 2009. Revenues for the period hit $3.02bn. Hardware sales were up 7.4 per cent year-on-year with Microsoft’s Xbox …
Read More »MX vs ATV series hits 10m
Over 10m units of games in the MX vs ATV series have now been shipped worldwide, publisher THQ has confirmed. The announcement comes as THQ prepares to reveal the next instalment in the series at the Monster Energy AMA Supercross opening event on Saturday in the US. "This record-setting milestone …
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