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Football Manager 2008 has stayed at number one in the Metaboli Download to Own charts for the third month. The Sega-published title continues to outsell Eidos’ Championship Manager, which has to make do with second place. Atari titles The Witcher and Test Drive Unlimited take up the third and fourth …

Back in December 2007, MCV reported that a certain game had cooked up one million sales in Europe, after only a year of release. Shortly afterwards the game got international credentials, when it clocked up 1.6 million sales in the US. Not bad for a DS and Wii game based …

BBC current affairs TV show Newsnight has filmed two boys playing a ’15’-rated game in front of one of its reporters – despite the pair clearly being younger than the title’s BBFC age classification. Last Wednesday evening’s episode of the show featured an examination of the legacy of media critic …

Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, has said that the firm must "continue to grow at a rapid pace in the years to come" to remain competitive – revealing he has up to 780m Euros (or $1.2bn) to spend on acquiring studios or publishers which will grow the company. Speaking to …

Manufacturer Nvidia has blasted claims that PC gaming is dying, insisting that ChartTrack and NPD data fail to provide a full account of the strength of the format. Roy Taylor, VP of content & developer relations at Nvidia said that the charts don’t take into account the changing nature of …

This momentary lapse of judgement, however, was worth it – if only to proudly read in the paper about the Games Up campaign which, as you’ll have read in the story on the right (and via Develop’s email newsflashes earlier this week), has seen 15 games studios and the industry’s …

PC-only release Age Of Conan has taken the top spot in the official German and Swedish charts – finally relegating Rockstar’s GTA IV from its No.1 position . The title’s Collector’s Edition also charted at No.6 in Germany – once again demonstrating the territory’s idiosyncratic love for PC gaming – …

The British Board of Film Classification has responded to ELSPA’s decision to ‘warn off’ publishers to its advances – stating that its relationship with UK games firms is a private matter. As revealed on MCVUK.com last week (23/05), ELSPA requested that leading publishers hold fire on implementing any changes to …

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Ninja Gaiden II has got some great previews from the press – how proud of it are you? I’m very happy with it. It’s not 100 per cent as I think that’s not possible to do, but I think that I was successful in making a game that no one …