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Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the UK’s best selling game for the fourth week in a row. The busy festive shopping period sees sales of the title slip just 15 per cent. It’s only the fourth game to spend four consecutive weeks at No.1 this year, with …

Our monthly studio recruitment update looks at Rare, Nomad Games and new studio Aphelio

Squeaky bums time. Sportsfriends is just $5,000 off its $150k Kickstarter funding goal with just 11 hours to go. It’s a fantastic turnaround for the project, which includes indie favourite PlayStation Move game Johann Sebastian Joust. Just 20 hours to go. We’re over 85 per cent of the way there, …

Month one sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops II were down 14 per cent on the 2011 November sales of Modern Warfare 3, a report has claimed. Gamasutra reckons that the game shifted 4.5m on Xbox 360 and 2.9m on PS3. Sales of the Wii U and PlayStation Vita …

Longbow Research’s James Hardiman believes that the Wii U has achieved just 1.2 software attach ratio in the US. This means that for every console sold consumers bought an average of 1.2 games. Another way of looking at it is that only one in five Wii U buyers bought an …

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Grammy-nominated Austin Wintory on the challenges of the medium

New, less promising, info on the Playstation Vita Bioshock game last mentioned back in April has come about. Irrational Games head honcho Ken Levine tells IGN that the game remains something he’s interested in, but its fate is currently out of his hands. That is in the hands of business …

It looks as if the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft has a good chance of running down its PC predecessor in terms of sales. Gamasutra reports the XBLA version is still selling between 40,000 and 60,000 copies a week just over half a year from launch. As of the end …