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Game Outlet Europe, perhaps best known for its pallet-based distribution business, has revealed plans to diversify its business with a brand new publishing arm, Nordic Games. With a launch plan targeting the budget and mid-priced market, the publisher will evolve beyond that as part of a longer-term strategy, according to …

Sony has told MCV that the introduction of its new 80GB PS3 will rapidly push up demand for the console – as it brings the launch date forward a week to this Friday (August 22nd). Following its flurry of announcements at the Leipzig Game Convention last night, SCE UK boss …

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GameStop vice chairman and COO Daniel DeMatteo has dismissed the number of full games being made available for digital downloads as ‘insignificant’. Speaking in an earnings call following the company’s stellar Q2 results yesterday, DeMatteo also expressed doubts over whether the new 160GB PS3 will be used for much more …

SCEE president David Reeves has rued out any move to drop the price of PlayStation 3 hardware this year. There is no price cut,” he told VG247. When press on specifically on whether or not there would be a PS3 price cut in 2008, Reeves reiterated, No,” adding, We’re not …

Video game retail giant, GameStop, has reported record financials for the second quarter of 2008. Net earnings reached $57.2 million for its Q2, an increase of 162.1 per cent over the same period last year. Sales also leapt 34.8 per cent to $1,804.4 million. The firm highlighted GTA IV, Metal …

Sony has confirmed UK prices for its newly announced PSP and PS3 models to MCV. The firm’s 160Gb PS3 will hold an SRP of 339.99, whilst the ‘PSP 3000′ will set consumers back 149.99. The PSP 3000 will launch on October 15th, with the 160GB PS3 following on Halloween (October …

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV is 2008’s biggest selling game so far, shifting a whopping 6.29 million copies since January 1st. New stats from the Top Global Markets Report – compiled of data from GFK (Europe), NPD (US), ChartTrack (UK) and Enterbrain (Japan) – shows the title has sold just …

The might of territory sales monitors GFK (Europe), Chart-Track (UK), NPD (US) and Enterbrain (Japan) have joined forces to form a new global sales monitoring ‘supergroup’. The new coalition will release the Top Global Markets Report, which will integrate point-of-sale (POS) data for video game software sales in the world’s …

Activision has just told MCV that Quantum of Solace hasn’t slipped for the UK market and will be released October 31st as originally planned. The publisher told us that the comments regarding an apparent delay in release for the upcoming Bond title were intended for the German market only, and …