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Last week PricewaterhouseCoopers published what seems to be an inappropriate attack on games retail. ’20 stores a day are closing,’ screams a press release from the accounting giant, issued last Thursday. "High Street chain store closures soar," cried the BBC as it frantically rewrote the announcement. You can read the …

New NPD data shows that while core gamers are embracing digital distribution, the method hasn’t overtaken purchasing new and used physical copies of titles at retail. The analysis group’s survey found that while 70 per cent of respondents purchase full digital titles frequently, a higher percentage prefer heading to the …

Dark Side of the Jam to be hosted by American space agency

With God of War: Ascension just around the corner, the PlayStation Store is offering savings on plenty of God of War products. The sales kicked off yesterday and will go on for a week, so we assume that it will end on 13th March, the day after Ascension hits stores. …

21,000 backers pledge funds to InXile RPG

Blake Jorgensen backtracks on previous comments that business model would become standard

Foundation calls on developers to help them refine optical input

Microtransactions will NOT feature in every single EA release going forwards. Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen last week claimed that the company is "building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way" and that "consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of …

InXile looking for $900,000 to fund new RPG following the success of Wasteland 2

Server crash leads to questions over publisher's switch to always online verification