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PC gaming may be the forgotten sector of the modern PC market, but it’s also the most financially important. That’s according to Green Man Gaming’s Darren Cairns who told an audience at Games Retail 2020 today that, according to Juniper Research, PC, handheld and console revenues will hit $43.2bn by …

And House of Mouse has been talking to Nintendo about Amiibo

Apple is not in the business of storing – or supplying – data about its customers, boss Tim Cook has said. The assurance comes just two weeks after Apple’s iCloud found itself at the centre of a celebrity nude picture controversy – although Apple itself has confirmed that only passwords …

Sajid Javid MP welcomes Philip Oliver's campaign to raise awareness of British games

Rock Band and Dance Central dev teams up with Tilting Point

The current physical issue of GAMER magazine will be the last. Bournemouth’s Uncooked Media has announced its intention to shift the brand online, focusing on its interactive GAMER app that launched in February. By focusing on GAMER Interactive we can embrace new opportunities, such as creating one-off specials on a …

Book publisher Egmont has revealed that its best-selling official Minecraft book has sold 1m units in the UK. The firm says it is the official Minecraft titles that are proving most popular, with the best-selling unofficial book – Minecraft for Dummies – only selling 20,000 units. The statistics were revealed …

EA CEO Andrew Wilson is celebrating a year in the job, and pledging that its customers will come first in the future. "I still have a job which is an accomplishment in itself," he joked when asked by Polygon how his first year has gone. Of what his goals are …

Hunger Games film studio wants gaming to be the third pillar of its business

Research giant Juniper Research has revealed its predictions for the UK games market by 2019. The firm says that combined revenue of PC and console games will be worth $41.2bn in 2019, a slight decline over previous years, but still accounting for well over 50 per cent of the market. …