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Nintendo claims that Rockstar’s commercially underperforming DS title, GTA Chinatown Wars, is selling in line” with other third-party AAA titles for the DS. Before NPD offered its March sales figures for North America, analysts gave conflicting predictions on the outcome of the critically adored title. EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich predicted that …
Read More »UK retail exposed in illegal game sales
An undercover investigation by a Trading Standards authority has exposed a number of retailers for selling mature games to a 14 year-old volunteer. The operation, which took place last week, saw the volunteer attempt to purchase 18-rated video games across 16 separate retail outlets. According to Dundee Council, twelve of …
Read More »UK retail reports Easter sales bonanza
UK video game retailers enjoyed a bumper Easter last weekend, with software value up 29 per cent over the previous week. The growth occurred despite the lack of a major blockbuster release, with sales driven by the recently launched DSi and aided by intense price cutting online and on the …
Read More »Majesco goes direct in Europe
Thought the DS and Wii markets couldn’t get more competitive? Think again. MCV can reveal that the firm responsible for ‘discovering’ Cooking Mama will soon start publishing its own titles in the UK and Europe. Majesco Europe is readying over ten games that it plans to sell direct to British …
Read More »Pirate Bay ruling will ‘warn mainstream off BitTorrent’
Miles Jacobson, studio director at Sports Interactive, has told Develop he believes that this morning’s Pirate Bay ruling is likely to put off mainstream consumers from obtaining Copyrighted software from BitTorrent sites. Sports Interactive – once responsible for the Championship Manager series and now the group behind Football Manager – …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Gardening Mama
Click here to head over to the updated RETAIL BIZ previews section for the lowdown on some of the key releases approaching retail over the next month. This week, we swap our rolling pin for a garden hose in 505 Games’ Gardening Mama, the sequel to the casual gaming phenomenon …
Read More »Is gesture control the new iPhones big gaming innovation?
Whilst we can be fairly certain a new iPhone is on the way this June or July, most likely packing a 3.2 megapixel camera, gyroscope and larger internal memory, it’s anyone’s guess what else Apple has planned – but new documents suggest motion tech could be at the heart of …
Read More »Sony and Microsoft wage Metacritic war
Amidst all the talk of NPD’s March year-on-year hardware sales comparisons, chart-topping software battles and third party revenue numbers, Sony and Microsoft both chose to play the PR game on another front – Metacritic review aggregations. In its post-March response, Sony stated that: Approximately one in every three PS3 titles …
Read More »John Madden announces retirement
Legendary US sports broadcaster John Madden has announced that he is to retire from TV commentating, but publisher EA has insisted that it doesn’t mean the end of their long-running relationship between Madden and its NFL games franchise. As you can imagine, we’ve had dozens of questions today about what …
Read More »US: The Conduit blasts towards summer release
Dubbed by many as the first person shooter that will revolutionize the genre on Wii, the developer of The Conduit has stated that the game will be released in North America on June 23rd. Joystiq obtained the news from High Voltage Software’s Eric Nofsinger. A European date for the game …
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