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Just hours after MCV revealed that Sony has been clearing the channel in preparation for its PS3 price cut on Tuesday it now appears as if Microsoft could be preparing an Xbox 360 price cut to counter the move. Kotaku has become the latest website to claim that Microsoft is …

Future Publishing will decline to release six-monthly ABC figures for any of its games portfolio tomorrow, MCV can reveal. The publisher has traditionally released the data – which shows its magazine sales numbers from January 1st to June 31st – every August. However, this year the publisher has opted to …

New numbers from analyst firm Nielsen Games suggest that the Xbox 360 currently boasts the most active user base of any home console, with 11.5 per cent of those owning the console in North America playing games on a regular basis. The news isn’t so rosy for Wii, however, with …

One year after EA failed in its $2 billion attempt to purchase GTA publisher Take Two, the firm has said it is no longer interested in such large-scale acquisitions. However, EA chief financial Officer Eric Brown says that the group is still interested in smaller takeovers. For the full story, …

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Tom Crago, the president of the Game Developers Association of Australia, has labelled the country’s video games classification system as ridiculous and antiquated” following the decision to ban Piranha Bytes’ Risen owing to references to sex and drugs. Risen was refused a certificate as its adult content was deemed unsuitable …

Rumours and speculation have been rife for many weeks now, but MCV can reveal that Sony is clearing PS3 hardware stock from the channel ahead of what is expected to be a new price point introduced from early September. A press conference at the Gamescom event in Cologne next Tuesday …

Consumer games site Eurogamer has announced the addition of four major publishers to the line-up for its upcoming Expo 2009 scheduled for this October. Fresh on board are Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft, all of whom will be bringing playable titles. Publishers already signed up include Eidos, Sega, Capcom, Konami, …

Sports Interactive’s Football Manager 2010 will hit PC and Mac on October 30th, alongside Football Manager Handheld 2010 on PSP. Last year’s entry in the series spent 22 weeks at the top of the ChartTrack PC charts and sold well over 1 million copies, and for this year’s games Sports …