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What’s the mood like in the Nintendo camp now that the big day’s nearly here? Yeah, everyone’s feeling good. There’s been some fantastic activity in the last couple of months, from us and from retail, and I think that’s got everyone in a really positive frame of mind for the …
Read More »Sainsbury’s posts minor sales rise
Sainsbury’s has seen a small increase in profit of one per cent during its fourth financial quarter. Profits rose 2.3 per cent year-on-year (or 4.7 per cent including fuel). Total product sales increased 3.5 per cent (or 6.8 per cent including fuel). Sales of non-food goods grew at more than …
Read More »Hotz flees to South America
The hacker at the centre of an increasingly bizarre legal battle with PS3 has reportedly fled to South America. VGHQ has unearthed Sony documents claiming that George Hotz has been removing key components from his electrical equipment so as to hide crucial information the company is trying to unearth as …
Read More »Zynga thief jailed for two years
Briton Ashley Mitchell stole $12 million in online currency
Read More »Heard About: Dead Space 2
John Broomhall speaks to BAFTA-award winning composer Jason Graves about his work on Visceral's horror title
Read More »UKIE calls for games industry ambassadors
UK trade body wants you to help foster the games development talent of tomorrow
Read More »Koch chalks up Ronnie OSullivan marketing plan
Details have emerged from Koch about the campaign for its Ronnie O’Sullivan-backed snooker game. The distributor is pushing ads for World Snooker Championship Real 2011 into 126 Rileys national snooker halls. These have an annual footfall of 4m. 250,000 consumers will also be targeted through POS materials such as posters and …
Read More »UK CHARTS: February 2011
Call of Duty: Black Ops is back at the top this month, toppling January’s best-seller EA’s FIFA 11. Not that EA has anything to worry about. The firm has ten games in the Top 50 with four in the Top Ten, including Dead Space 2 and the month’s biggest selling …
Read More »360 users leading digital trend
Research shows that 55 per cent of Xbox 360 owners downloaded at least one digital title in 2010. Market research firm EEDAR reports that this is up from 43 per cent in 2009 and outperforms rival consoles, according to GamesIndustry.biz. PS3 users that download games rose from 42 per cent …
Read More »‘EA in better digital shape than Acti’
The founder of mobile games firm Ngmoco has said that EA is best positioned to face the transition from boxed sales to digital downloads. Neil Young – also a former EA Los Angeles executive – claimed that publishers such as Activision are doing a worse job of preparing a strong …
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