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Sony Australia has cut the price for the PSP in the region. As of today, the UMD-based handheld will retail for $189.95, according to VG247. The news follows similar price cuts to the PSP in the US and Europe. However, Sony told MCV last week that there are no plans …

News agency Bloomberg is reporting that Sony has cut the price of the PSP in Europe. The platform holder reduced the price of the machine in the US earlier this year, with many presuming that the shift in strategy was in preparation for the arrival of NGP later this year. …

A slice of action from Battlefield 3 was debuted to the MCV Awards crowd last night – and you can relive the clip below. Due out on November 2nd, the game is headed for PS3, 360 and PC. It’s a direct sequel to Battlefield 2 and the twelfth game in …

Ubisoft’s founder and CEO Yves Guillemot has told MCV that his company can overtake the industry’s two behemoths, Activision and EA, to become the global games market leader. Commenting on the eve of the firm’s MCV Award Grand Prix win, he said that EA selling its stake in Ubisoft last year …

It is when Yves Guillemot lists the companies that Ubisoft first worked with that you realise just what an achievement it has been to simply survive for 25 years, let alone prosper. He recalls deals with Domark, Elite, US Gold, Telecomsoft and Ocean – all now either defunct, absorbed by …

Attendees of this year’s Gadget Show Live will be able to play LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and parts of Gears of War 3 for the first time. The upcoming titles will be showcased at the GAME stand in the Gadget Show Live’s Game Zone. The event runs from Wednesday, …

Not winning perhaps reveals the difficulty it had last year with some other titles, or the over-achievement of Red Dead. Microsoft winning three and EA winning publisher of the year nods towards these two being considered two of the strongest performers of the last 12 months. Nintendo, meanwhile, has worked …

So where was the MCV Award for Activision? After the success of Black Ops, the team from Stockley Park were bound to go home with something shiny, right? Nope. These days, even publishing the biggest selling game doesn’t guarantee anything. And that just about sums up where the games business …

EA walked away with the coveted Best Games Publisher title at tonight’s MCV Awards event in London. It marks an impressive double for the company which also claimed tonight’s PR Team award. EA enjoyed a strong 2010 with a host of chart-topping releases and has got off to a flyer …