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Modern Warfare 2. Not a bad little launch, hey? Thanks to unprecedented retail activity – responsible for a large chunk of the initial sales – Call of Duty is already on course to gross over a billion dollars worldwide in this calendar year alone. Yet only now can we start …

Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed that Nintendo would not employ him today if he applied for a position with his original qualifications. Speaking to Edge, Miyamoto said: Nintendo has become one of those companies that graduates from colleges and good universities really want to work for. Because of that, the competition’s …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has responded to news that a US law firm is looking to take it to court over claims that its decision to block Xbox Live access for modded consoles was strategically made as the hectic Q4 busy seasons gets underway. Piracy is illegal and modifying …

Japanese Wii owners can now rent movies, anime and other paid video downloads through the Wii no Ma Channel. The new Theater no Ma section launched this weekend, enabling consumers to use the new videos-on-demand service by renting content with their Wii Points, according to Andriasang. Nintendo’s own programmes, such …

â??Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products,â?? claims finance director

This weekend saw the arrival of Nintendo’s newest hardware in Japan, the DSi LL – which will be known as the DSi XL. If the latest pictures on Famitsu’s website are anything to go by, it seems as if the public appetite for the console is impressive. The DSi LL …

There’s a bizarre sentiment in some game outlets that the closure of U.S. busy-body media-watching outfit The National Institute on Media and the Family, might somehow be detrimental to the game industry’s quest for moral acceptance. One games journalist wrote, "We shouldn’t be too quick to cheer. NIMF …brought a …

Microsoft has claimed that it is continually keeping ahead” of its rivals’ online services with additions to Xbox Live. The firm this week added social media services such as Twitter, Facebook and music portal Last.FM to Live – as well as HD movie streaming service Zune. However, Facebook arrived on …

Though some corners of the internet would have you believe that we were literally all about to die following Infinity Ward’s decision to drop dedicated multiplayer servers for the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the sales numbers paint a different story. Posting on the Infinity Ward …

Sony expects its revenues from the PlayStation Network to reach $500m in 2009 – and if this proves correct it will mean that the service has enjoyed a 300 per cent year-on-year increase. The claim comes from executive VP Kaz Hirai, who made the bold prediction at a management strategy …