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The president of Compal Electronics has stated that Windows 7 will be shipping as a pre-installed operating system as early as September this year. He told an investor conference that: According to current planning, it should be late September or early October.” Click here to head over to PC Retail …

Sony, Rockstar, Microsoft and Activision will go head-to-head at this year’s GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. BAFTA announced its full list of nominations last week ahead of the March 10th awards ceremony at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The event is being held in association with GAME and …

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Whilst a PS3 price cut of some sort seems certain within the coming months, one analyst has gone one further by predicting that a drop will be confirmed within days. Recent channel checks indicate increased speculation for a PS3 price cut announcement from Sony in the next couple of days,” …

Warner’s Q1/Q2 range is quite a contrast to the family-orientated titles you released last year. Why is that?I think that variety is a good indication of what Warner is all about. We are a massive media company with an eclectic intellectual property mix. The games market is a mass market …

Better trade relations and a line-up of key titles that will excite retail are being promised by the new UK management team leading Codemasters in 2009. The publisher is building up to one of its most prolific years ever, with open world racer FUEL arriving in May, Operation Flashpoint 2 …

Sony has announced that its PlayStation Network now boasts over 20 million registered accounts, successfully establishing it as a robust network business platform”. It has taken two years and three months to reach the milestone, and expansion has been accelerating. After one year and two months PSN’s user base stood …

Koch Media has signed up as Event Partner for this year’s MCV Awards. The big night take place at The Brewery, London on April 23rd. Codemasters and Gem have previously announced their support of the event, signing up as Exclusive Pre-Drinks Partners, whilst Nintendo is sponsoring the Retail category of …

Global sales of Blu-ray discs will pass the 100m unit mark this year, according to data from research firm Futuresource Consulting. It states that the increasing number of HDTVs in consumer’s homes will offset the negative market effects of the economic recession. Last year in the US alone, Blu-ray video …

In a surprise move, the former boss of EA’s casual division Kathy Vrabeck looks set to return to the industry as the figurehead of Legendary Pictures’ push into the games sector. CasualGaming.biz has the full story – click here to take a look.