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Strategy Analytics thinks the upcoming console generation will fall well short of the financial success enjoyed by our current machines. As well as predicting a 15 per cent decline year-on-year for console hardware sales in 2013, the firm also reckons that the expected peak in 2016 will still represent a …

GAME, PlayStation, Twitch, Twitter, Google and more to speak at key industry event

UK supermarket Asda will be selling Call of Duty: Ghosts for 39.97 from midnight on the evening of Monday November 4th. The Hardened Edition of the game will also be on sale for 69.00 as well as COD-branded Turtle Beach headsets for 69.97. Gamers will also be able to pick …

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There are just two weeks to go until the London Games Conference – time’s running out if you want to be there. Our influential conference this year features top-flight execs from the likes of GAME, PlayStation, Twitch, Twitter, Google and many others. It takes place on November 13th at One …

The PS4 and Xbox One could easily ship 10m units between them by March next year, EA COO Peter Moore believes. In an earnings call, viaSeeking Alpha, Moore said that indications he had received from Microsoft and Sony suggested the next-gen consoles could be in plentiful supply. "When I talked …

'Sony and Microsoft are proposing that this could be their best launches ever,' says Peter Moore

Publisher EA has reported a $273m loss for the quarter ending September 30th. That’s less than the $381m loss reported in the same quarter the year before. Net revenue for the period reached $695m. Digital revenue climbed to $450m, up from $324m a year earlier. That means digital accounted for …

It’s almost Call of Duty time, and Activision is planning a star-studded launch party to celebrate. Football stars Daniel Sturridge and Andros Townsend will be joined by Wretch 32, Jamal Edwards and Martyn Littlewood, along with music duo Rizzle Kicks. The A-listers will all face-off against each other in Call …