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The public’s increasing propensity to leave their festive shopping late has sent retail into a pre-Christmas sale panic. That’s according to PricewaterhouseCoopers which, according to The Telegraph, says that six in ten High Street stores have already kicked off their post-Christmas sales. On average, these stores have cut a whopping …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts has continued its recent dominance of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. The shooter has retained its grip on the top spot for three successive weeks now, making it five No.1’s in total for the shooter. That’s despite a week-on-week sales decline of …

Revamped game will benefit from new consoles, says Laurent Detoc

Capcom has confirmed that it is pulling two of its digital fighting games from PlayStation network and Xbox Live. Both Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 are to be pulled from sale in the near future. DLC for both games will cease to be available in …

It’s not often that all work on a game is binned and the project is started over, but that’s exactly what happened with Rainbow Six: Patriots. The game was first announced in 2011 We had a core team. They had a good vision. They got started, and then the game …

Retailer Game4u kicked off its end-of-year sale over the weekend. The sale features discounts on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 games and will last almost half a month, ending on 1st January. New games will be added to sale each day and will also include used games (what Game4u calls …

A free-to-play Family Guy mobile game likely in the same vein as The Simpsons: Tapped Out has been announced for iOS and Android devices. GameSpot reports the title will arrive in 2014 as a free download packing in-app purchases – microtransactions that will provide players the option to control the …

Major League Gaming audiences watched more than 54m hours of MLG-produced video content in 2013, the organization has announced. According to MLG, the figure represents a 262 per cent increase from 2012 and a whopping 1,557 per cent growth from 2010’s total. "MLG’s 1,557 percent growth in live video consumption …

Sony has announced the launch of its PlayStation 4 system in 16 new countries. Games Industry reports new markets include Greece, Slovakia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Other upcoming territories have also been announced, such …

Simul's Roderick Kennedy offers a counter argument to advocates of all-in-one middleware solutions