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Calling Sony’s software development tools lame”, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has said that he believes that Microsoft will come out on top in the next-gen console race. I personally believe that Microsoft is in a superior position,” Bushnell said in his Gametrailers feature, adding, Sony, whenever they changes consoles, the …

Hilco UK will acquire HMV in a 50m deal. Sky News is reporting that a deal has been agreed for the entertainment giant, with 140 stores and 2,500 staff saved. An official announcement could be made as early as tomorrow morning. Earlier today it was announced that some HMV outlets, …

Upcoming RPG epic The Witcher 3 will be free of the shackles of DRM on PC. The news will be applauded by the gaming community, which has become vocally tired of draconian security measures that more often than not result in the official product being more prohibitive to users than …

Sony’s PS4 will be released in October and cost 300. Or at least that’s what a reporter for The Sun believes. Both statements are dropped into the paper’s interview with Sony’s Andrew House, although neither are attributed to the exec. Indeed, The Sun simply says PS4 is believed to be …

No matter what we print about ambitions by supermarkets or GAME, the fact is the number of games retailers has wobbled a bit. So the news that Blockbuster has been bought is a relief, even if administrators had to close half the shops to secure a new owner. A month …

The PlayStation 4 will be introduced globally in 2013, retailer Gamestop’s executive vice president of strategy business and brand development Michael Hogan has said, allaying fears that the console would arrive in India, along with Europe, in next year. We know that Sony will introduce the PlayStation 4 globally in …

Games The Shop, India’s largest physical game retail chain, now has an online presence. However, rather than setting up its own e-commerce portal, the retailer has chosen to go the eBay Store route. The chain is a subsidiary of E-xpress Interactive, one of India’s largest game distributors, and has ten …

International games retailer GameStop has reported a year-on-year increase in profits from $943.2 to $974.9 for the 14 weeks ending February 2nd. That’s despite a fall in net sales from $3.579bn in the same period last year to $3.562bn. Operating profit jumped from $302.5m to $412.3m. Net income jumped from …

Online indie ShopTo has seen its software market share leap in 2012. The firm says that, according to Chart-Track figures, its market share increased 45 per cent last year. ShopTo has already claimed significant wins this year, securing 31 per cent of the sales of Ni No Kuni Collector’s Edition, …

PC tech giant AMD has revealed that it was the upcoming Radeon HD 7990 that powered EA’s technically impressive Battlefield 4 demo at GDC. Until now AMD has rarely spoken about the HD 7990 specifically. As expected, the card is basically two high-end HD 7970s spliced together on a single …