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This latest MCV–which isnow available to view online– kicks off our month-long celebration of independent retailers. We profile the top five newest retailers on the market, from ThatGameShop to JD Games. Elsewhere, E3 organisers respond to the news that Nintendo isn’t holding a press conference. And we speak to the …

Former Microsoft creative director says he doesn't need another way to view Facebook

The next billion people to get connected will have never used a desktop computer, says James Pearce

Home Retail Group has reported a year of flat sales and reduced profits, but owned multi-channel retailer Argos has had a better year. The company also announced a ‘transformation plan’ to reinvent Argos as a digital retail leader and reposition it from a catalogue-led to a digitally-led business. The firm’s …

A second straight year of unprofitability at its electronics unit has led a number of high-level Sony execs to forfeit their bonuses. That’s despite Sony returning to overall profitability for the first time in five years last week. Bloomberg reports that the proposed forfeiture was suggested by chief executive Kaz …

Pixie Software's Stephen Caruana on getting ready to enter the independent development scene

The Wii U is not underpowered, the president of Nintendo has argued. That’s despite the fact that it about matches current gen machines Xbox 360 and PS3 but will trail far behind PS4 (and Xbox 720) upon their release later this year. "It is a fact that some software development …

Lift London 'thrilled' by DLaLa's twin Develop Award nominations

The tablet computer industry – and in turn the iPad – will be dead within five years, the boss of Blackberry has claimed. In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” chief executive Thorsten Heins said, as reported by The Telegraph. Maybe a …

A complete overhaul of Apple’s iOS operating system could delay its rollout until later in the year. Bloomberg reports that the decision to instigate such a radical redesign – the first in the history of iOS – comes from Apple’s former hardware design chief and current software guru Jonathan Ive. …