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2.67m boxed games were sold last month in what was a decent March for retail. That number is a slight 1.5 per cent drop over the same period in 2012, but it’s a big improvement over the significant declines posted in January and February. In fact, games stores generated 70.6m …

The High Street will find new life in the undead next month as The Walking Dead arrives on shelves. The award-winning title was originally released last year as episodic downloads by Telltale Games, with 8.5m episodes purchased by the end of 2012. Retail will be able to cash in on …

Mudvark on developing a game for Windows 8

Jenny Berg Nilson tells you what to expect from the studio behind LittleBigPlanet PS Vita

Hopes of a Western release for a 3DS version of Ni No Kuni have been resurrected. The game enjoyed tremendous critical success upon its European PS3 release in January, but it actually debuted as a DS title in Japan back in 2010. Now Pocket Gamer reports that an un-named Namco …

Game industry to continue trend towards triple-A games

Office of Fair Trading to investigate ethics and practices of IAP in youth-targeted games

The Office of Fair Trading is to investigate in app purchases used in smartphone and web games. The moves is a result of concerns that some customers – primarily children – are unwittingly spending sizable sums on content in games which, when they are initially downloaded, are presumed to be …

California's Dianne Feinstein says killers can practice on video games

Yui Tanimura promises greater focus for Dark Souls 2