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Creditors of bankrupt publisher THQ have won their fight to block the company’s sale to Clearwater Capital. MCV reported earlier today that creditors were unhappy with the pre-pack agreement in place with Clearwater because it prevented other parties entering the bidding process and potentially robbed them of maximum returns. Now …

Apple’s App Store has hit 40 billion downloads, less than a year afterreaching 25bn downloads back in March.The announcement follows Flurry’s study that showed1.76bn Android and iOS apps were downloaded in the last week of 2012. Apple certainly had a bumper December as the App Store reached 2bn downloads during …

Sony to 'show off pre-release hardware ahead of an expected 2014 launch'

The console sector is at a crossroads, and a look at the numbers behind Xbox 360 and PS3 make for uncomfortable reading. According to numbers presented by former EA and Sony man Ben Cousins on Kotaku, between them Xbox 360 and PS3 have left an $8bn black hole in the …

Proposals must be submitted by January 25th

Having dropped off the top of the listings back in October, EA’s FIFA 13 is back at the top of the Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the game’s fifth No.1 since it was released last September. It has yet to drop below 4th place. Last week’s No.1, Ubisoft’s …

High-end figurine specialist Play Arts has revealed a highly detailed Raiden figure that will release around the same time as Konami’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Full Metal Hero reports that that ‘Play Arts Kai Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – Raiden’ will come in both black and white versions. No release …

Having single-handedly proven that episodic, narrative-driven gaming is very much a financial reality, Telltale has name-dropped some other key IP. Many of Telltale’s staff are former developers from LucasArts – a perfect reason, it argues, why it could do the Star Wars IP justice. Coming from LucasArts we always felt …

Develop speaks to company CMO Anthony Johnson and asks why it can't fund the project itself

Developer already at work on a number of titles