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The Games For Windows Live Marketplace will be revamped next month. As well as an aesthetic redesign, the service will be receiving a host of new features, including an Xbox Live-style Deal of the Week, pre-order incentives and more, according to Joystiq. Microsoft group product manager Peter Orullian also told …

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Sony has announced that PlayStation Move has sold one million units in its first month in the US. The company’s president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America Jack Tretton has said demand for the new motion controller is far outstripping supply, according to Reuters. Production for the device …

Almost a year after Fable II, Microsoft and Lionhead re-released the game in episodic chunks over Xbox Live. And the game’s creative director Peter Molyneux feels digital is the way to reach an even broader audience. Retail will get you to 70 or 80 per cent of the people who …

Industry charity GamesAid has selected the five charities that will receive a donation of 20,000 each. The number is a 76 per cent increase in donations year-on-year. The five charities are Action for Kids, Special Effect, The Willow Foundation, Families Need Fathers and Volunteer Centre Sutton: MAPS. The 20,000 donations …

Nintendo’s Christmas push aims to further legitimise video games as a pastime in the eyes of the mainstream. As its Real Stories campaign kicks off this week, the format holder has told MCV that there’s still a long way for the industry to go in terms of securing mass market …

The staff at GAME in Guildford will serve a rather surprising customer on Friday, October 29th. They may not know who he is, but you will. It’s development legend Peter Molyneux, and he is there to buy his own video game, Fable III. Molyneux performs this ritual every time one …

The staff at GAME in Guildford will serve a rather surprising customer on Friday, October 29th. They may not know who he is, but you will. It’s development legend Peter Molyneux, and he is there to buy his own video game, Fable III. Molyneux performs this ritual every time one …

It topped the charts and has sold 60,000 units since the summer. A good game from Polish outfit City Interactive? Absolutely. But much praise should go to Mastertronic, which handled sales and performed a sales miracle. Mastertronic’s prize? City last week barked publicly, and unexpectedly, that it wants to bring …

Surprise hits are increasingly rare these days, so MCV has enjoyed covering the success of Sniper: Ghost Warrior on PC and Xbox 360. It topped the charts and has sold 60,000 units since the summer. A good game from Polish outfit City Interactive? Absolutely. But much praise should go to …