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Sony’s lack of first party software releases for PSP in the last year has mean the handheld has been 2010’s most disappointing performer, according to retailer GameStop. I think Sony did a great job two years ago in terms of coming out with a pretty good line-up of PSP offerings …

Turbulenz Limited game creation and publishing platform receives investor support

We are yet to receive any firm sales numbers for Call of Duty: Black Ops from publisher Activision, but stats from Xbox Live suggests the game is well on track to rival the records set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2. As noted by Treyarch’s community manager Josh Olin, last …

The first reviews for EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit are live, and it looks as if the publisher and developer Criterion has a big hit on its hands. At the time of writing the (PS3 version of the) game is averaging a very impressive 92 per cent on Metacritic. …

Bookmaker Paddy Power has opened the betting on the race to be the UK’s official Christmas No.1 video game, and the early favourite is perhaps not surprisingly Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. The company is currently offering odds of 1/6 on the game. So far it has only released …

Members of the winning team at the MCV/Xbox 360 Christmas Quiz will each receive the most talked about new product of the year, Kinect. They’ll also receive an Xbox 360 to use it with and a copy of Kinect Adventures to get them started. The quiz takes place at London’s …

As well as the celebrity-driven official Call of Duty: Black Ops launch party at Battersea Power Station last night, UK retailer GAME held the official retail launch gathering at its Oxford Street store in central London. Around 300 Call of Duty fans were at hand to be the first to …

Asda has declared Call of Duty: Black Ops will be its biggest games launch of all time. The supermarket claims it has an unprecedented level of stock for the imminent FPS, which it says far outstrips that of any previously released video game. We are putting more stock into store …

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has sold $1.3 billion of shares in the firm, a move he says should not be construed as a lack of faith in the software giant. Ballmer claims the move, which is his first sale of Microsoft stock in seven years, is about diversifying his …

MIGS 2010: Global development talent descends on Montréal event