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Financial services firm Cowen & Company has projected a steep decline for videogame retail sales over the next few months. Games Industry reports on a note from the company forecasting a rather bleak period between now and the annual Madden NFL release in August. Following a strong March line-up that …

Naughty Dog’s upcoming survival action game The Last of Us will be priced at Rs 2,699 in India, a drop from the usual Rs 2,999 price point for triple-A first party games. News of the price drop comes from retailer Game4u, and is probably the result of the game being …

Real-money and gold Auction Houses back online after economy crippling bug is fixed

As our Indie Retail Month continues, this week we reveal the five top fastest growing indies in the UK. Starting off the week is a look at online indie 365games.co.uk (Xbite). Xbite managing director Nick Whitehead talks to MCV about the challenges in starting up an online independent store and …

As our Indie Retail Month in association with Gem continues, the last entry in our look at UK’s best new indies is Welsh store JD Games. Co-owner Dafydd Davies tells MCV about how the new shop is growing every day JD Games in Llanelli, Wales only opened in December 2012 …

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Smash hit mobile game generating nearly $4 million a day

Japanese smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is making some serious cash for owner GungHo. Serkantoto.com reports that the iOS and Android game made an eye-watering $133m in April alone, according to GungHo president Kazuki Morishita. That equates to a staggering $3.76m per day. GungHo’s overall sales reached 12bn ($199m) in …

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Blizzard is to hand over the profits generated from a recent bug in the Diablo III Auction house to charity. The popular PC dungeon crawler allows players to trade in-game items for real-world cash. However, a recent patch introduced an exploit that allowed users to multiply their cash reserves. The …