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Wii U’s poor performance in the February US market has been compounded by worrying noise from the country’s leading games retailer. Following the holiday launch period, sales have been slower than we expected,” GameStop president Tony Bartel told Forbes. Nintendo plans on launching some of their biggest IP over the …

Cartoon Network has partnered with Rovio to bring the Angry Birds animated series – Angry Birds Toons, to India. We’re delighted to introduce the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies characters and their world in more detail to our Indian fans. We combine the look and feel of cartoon classics with …

Valve’s tight grip on the PC market is paying off, as the company saw business grow by around 50 per cent last year. Gabe Newell revealed the info during an interview at the BAFTA awards last week, where he was honoured with the Academy Fellowship. Newell mentioned that a recent …

Nintendo’s 3DS title Fire Emblem: Awakening had the best first month sales in franchise history”, according to Nintendo of America. The US release has sold more than 180k units since its February 4th launch, with around 63k of the total purchased digitally via the Nintendo 3DS eShop. A hardware bundle …

Industry vet Patrice Dsilets has returned to Ubisoft following the firm’s purchase of THQ Montreal, where Dsilets had previously been employed. The Assassin’s Creed designer rejoined the publisher after the wholesale purchase of THQ’s Canadaian-based studio, an Ubisoft rep confirmed to Polygon. "We are very pleased to welcome Patrice to …

Numbers are in for the past month at US retail from NPD, with results showing yet another poor sales period for the market. February 2013 saw total industry sales at $810m, a 25 per cent year-over-year decline which stings even worse considering how bad February 2012 fared. Software sales were …

Intent Media is excited to announce the launch of the 2013 MCV Pacific Awards presented by the iGEA. We are proud to be partnering with MCV on their inaugural Awards Show this year," said Ron Curry, CEO of the iGEA. "It is the perfect opportunity to bring our Members and …

Iconic tabletop gaming outfit keen to meet developers at GDC and E3

Iconic tabletop gaming firm Games Workshop has a new strategy for licensing its IP to the games business. It has signed up seven new games development partners in the last nine months, each of them working on various different games, inspired by the Warhammer fantasy medieval brand, the fantasy sci-fi …

Games Workshop has struck yet another Warhammer licensing deal with a video games publisher. This time it’s the turn of Slitherine which has penned an agreement to produce a strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, development of which is already underway. This deal represents yet another testament to …