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Star Wars: Check. Batman: Check. Indiana Jones: Check. Harry Potter: Check. Pirates of the Caribbean: why not? Yep, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films will be the next to receive the LEGO treatment, courtesy of UK developer TT Games. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game will be published …
Read More »Pre-owned claims 50% of GameStop profit
GameStop has revealed that sales of pre-owned game products accounted for 47.4 per cent of the company’s profit for the three months ending October 2010. In total pre-owned was worth $528.m, with profit of $250.2m. By comparison profit from new games reached $182.4m (21.7 per cent of the quarter’s total) …
Read More »Record sales for GameStop
Who said there was a slump in the software market? GameStop has just published its three-month trading report, showing that sales were up nine per cent year on year. Record sales were at $1.9bn for the three months ending October 30th – that’s a jump on the same period last …
Read More »Microsoft, Sony praise Black Ops success
Call of Duty: Black Ops is officially the biggest entertainment launch of all-time – and platform holders Microsoft and Sony are delighted with its success. With a record breaking performance on Xbox Live, home to the world’s largest Call of Duty gaming community, Call of Duty: Black Ops has already …
Read More »Black Ops claims 5-day sales record
As was revealed by MCV this morning, Activision has confirmed that Black Ops has not just shattered Call of Duty records – it’s also re-written the entertainment launch books. The publisher has revealed that the game sold an astonishing $650m of stock in its first five days on the market. …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 for £4.99
Entertainment retailer HMV is to sell Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 for just 4.99 next week to any customer happy to trade-in a copy of Codemasters’ F1 2010 for PS3. The deal will run between the game’s release on Wednesday November 24th and Friday November 26th. The offer echoes the trade-in …
Read More »UK’s dismissal of games tax break is ‘extraordinary’
'If shoe fits for film industry why does Government argue it does not for games?'
Read More »Namco classics head to XBLA and PSN
Namco Bandai has announced a new line of digital-only revamped arcade games for Xbox 360 and PS3. Dubbed Namco Generations, the range will include several updated classics with high-definition graphics, new gameplay features and in-game community news. The first release will be Pac-Man Championship Edition DX which arrives on November …
Read More »Dreamcast Collection tipped for Xbox 360
A compilation of Sega Dreamcast titles could be coming to the Xbox 360 next year. A GameStop listing – that has since been pulled – suggested the Dreamcast Collection would be available in Q1 2011 and would retail at $29.99, according to Kotaku. No details were given about the SKUs …
Read More »Treasury: Tax breaks argument is not valid
UK exchequer secretary finally reveals justification for putting kibosh on games dev subsidies
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