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Whilst the practise of working with your peers to gain Achievement points is fairly common – indeed, games such as Project Gotham Racing 4 actively encourage it – but Microsoft has warned that those who go as far as sharing their account information to do so face possible dire consequences, …

Woolworths has recorded a fall in like-for-like sales for the 38 weeks up to the end of October, reported Marketing Week . Despite the 0.4 per cent dip, the retail chain’s total group sales were up by 16.6 per cent thanks to acquisitions and new contracts relating to its entertainment …

Next-Gen reports that nearly three years after the game first debuted on GameCube, the fourth version of the game on Nintendo Wii has shipped one million copies globally. As well as recently appearing on PC, Resident Evil 4 has enjoyed success on both PS2 and GameCube, selling two million and …

What has changed at Mad Catz and Joytech since the acquisiton? We’re enormously proud and gratified that in acquiring Joytech from Take 2, we have managed to keep all UK members of the Joytech team and relocate them to our European HQ in Milton Keynes. There have been no redundancies …

The funny thing was that during this period, the AvP brand as it was known was in its infancy. There was a series of comics but that was about it. What we did have, however, were two incredibly popular franchises which had been ‘fused’ together. We were never going to …

Gaming’s march into the mainstream has taken another significant step with the release of The Girls’ Guide to Gaming. Publisher Black Dog Media has told MCV that the new title has only been made possible by the runaway success of Nintendo formats DS and Wii, and has criticised the ‘boys …

Krome Studios has announced that Konami’s former vice president of product development Kurt Busch is to head up its Melbourne Studio, the outfit that was formerly known as Melbourne House and owned by Atari. As well as heading up the Melbourne operations, Busch will also liaise with its Adelaide and …

Nintendo Europe has announced that the Wii Zapper, a peripheral that allows gamers to use their Wii Remote and Nunchuck like a gun, will go on sale in Europe on December 7th and will come bundled with Zelda-themed title Link’s Crossbow Training. The device allows gamers to easily access both …

David Amor, the boss of Buzz studio Relentless Software, has ahead of tomorrow’s release of Buzz in North America said that the time is now right for the successful quiz series to hit retail on that side of the Atlantic. Speaking to Next-Gen, Amor believes that SCEE is ahead of …

All has been quiet on the Burnout front in the last few months, but reports that the game is more or less complete and ready to go have been backed by the announcement of the North American release date of January 22nd. However, European gamers have yet to hear when …