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ELSPA’s director general Michael Rawlinson has been promoted to vice chairman of the Alliance Against IP Theft. The Alliance is a UK-based coalition of 20 associations and enforcement organisations that work to protect the industry’s IP rights. Rawlinson has been working with the organisation as treasurer for two years. With …
Read More »Kane & Lynch gets early release
Publisher Square Enix has announced that it has brought forward the release date of Xbox 360, PS3 and PC action title Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days in both Europe and North America. The game will now hit UK and European retail on August 20th and will arrive in the …
Read More »â??Mobile gaming will beat consoles within a yearâ??
Develop 2010: Fishlabs CEO predicts big things for the mobile games industry
Read More »Casual XBL games claim 5% of sales
Casual games cover about a third of the Xbox Live Arcade catalogue, yet their total sales make up just a fraction of the digital market. That was according to data revealed today at the fifth annual Develop Conference, where a developer of the PSN title Joe Danger bared all on …
Read More »City celebrates Sniper success
City Interactive will up shipments of its FPS, Sniper Ghost Warrior, after it broke into the Top Ten last week. The stealth FPS is City’s first major Xbox 360 and PC release, and hit shelves last Friday. It reached fifth place in the Xbox 360 games chart and tenth place …
Read More »3DS to foil the pirates
It’s a problem that has caused the DS market to collapse” and seen software sales drop by 50 per cent in Europe over recent months, but one publisher reckons Nintendo will finally thwart the pirates with its upcoming 3DS handheld. What excites me even more than 3DS games is that …
Read More »GameStop: We dont like pre-owned
UPDATE: An official spokesperson from the US GameStop office has contacted MCV with the following statement: These comments from an unnamed and unknown person claiming to be a GameStop employee are inaccurate. Pre-owned is the cornerstone of our business and, as you say, a key driving force for us. Both …
Read More »Apple deleting forum complaints
Apple has removed a number of threads containing complaints about the iPhone 4 from its comment boards. According to Mac User, the vendor deleted comments that referred to an unfavourable review by Consumer Reports, the US equivalent to Which?. The referred article was critical of the widely reported antenna problems …
Read More »Data – XBLA â??casual gamesâ?? represent 5% sales
Develop 2010: Yet games such as Uno and Sudoku cover over 30 per cent of the digital store
Read More »MS to make $1bn from Kinect in year one
Though opinion on the likely success or otherwise of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect camera remains divided, Caris & Co analyst Sandeep Aggarwal believes the camera could make as much as $1bn for the company in its first year on the market. Kinect could generate $2bn in incremental consumer spending on …
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