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The ERA has said that the UK video games market declined 17.4 per cent to 1.598bn in 2012. Those numbers include both physical and digital sales. By contrast, music was down just 5.5 per cent and video 10 per cent. The overall entertainment market decline was 12 per cent, with …

Japanese and South Korean players get free access to fantasy MMO

Activision has released the first gameplay footage of its own take on The Walking Dead. Developed by Terminal Reality (Star Wars Kinect, Def Jam Rapstar, Ghostbusters, Bloodrayne), the game offers a different take on the IP that has already enjoyed video game success at the hands of Telltale and its …

Details of the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – titled Revolution – has been leaked online. Promotional images for the upcoming DLC have made their way to CharlieIntel.com, and reveal that the pack features five new maps. The maps are titled Hydro, Grind, Downhill, Mirage, …

Support to continue on card battle game Ayakashi but three other titles dropped

Industry luminary honoured for a second time

EA has announced a list of titles whose online support will be terminated on January 11th. The most notable game is FIFA 11, for which both online play and Ultimate Team functionality will be shut off. Also facing the chop are NFL 11, NBA Jam and FIFA Manager 11. The …

The rumours are true; Tomb Raider will feature multiplayer, but it is not being worked on by Crystal Dynamics. The multiplayer aspect has been handed over to Eidos Montreal, which developed Deus Ex: Human Revolution and is – last we heard – working on Thief 4. The confirmation was made …

A report being published by the Entertainment Retailers Association will this morning say that digital sales in the UK passed 1bn in 2012. That represents the amount spent on games, music and films in 2012, although games accounted for over half of the total at 552m, climbing 7.7 per cent. …

Mojang’s multi-platform cash cow Minecraft has once again flexed its muscle. The indie game with its own convention moved 453,000 units on December 25th. Creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson took to twitter to share the news; initially claiming the figure was collected on December 24th, and then later correcting the date …