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The UK games retail market suffered its worst week on record last week. Again. Software sales plunged 30 per cent in the week ending September 8th to just 370,443 games sold. All together this generated an all-time low revenue figure of just 7.76m. The sudden drop comes after weeks of …

Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs has claimed its fourth UK number one. The open-world action title has surpassed all expectations, having held the top spot for four of the last five weeks, with NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 briefly interrupting in its week of release. To win this week it had to …

HMV wants its West End Oxford Street store to become the new home for midnight game launches. It follows the closure of GAME?Oxford Street – which for years had been the publishers’ choice for official launch events. Since Game no longer has a major West End presence, we hope publishers …

Over a month after EA filed its copyright lawsuit against Zynga, the social gaming giant has responded with a suit of its own. Not only is Zynga denying EA’s claim that The Ville is a blatant rip-off of The Sims Social, but it has also mustered some accusations of its …

Social games giant claims unfair competition over alleged no-hire agreement

Fallout: New Vegas studio returns to Black Isle roots with old-school RPG Project Eternity

Pre-orders for the Wii U Deluxe edition have apparently reached their allotted numbers across all US Gamestop stores. A report out of Polygon claims that reservations for the currently definitive Wii U package have been filled ‘company wide’ in America. The basic bundle is likely to follow suit sometime soon …

The Pocket Edition of Minecraft has arrived for the Kindle Fire. It runs $7, same as the iOS and Android versions, and is available to purchase now on the Amazon Appstore. Joystiq points out persistent Kindle Fire owners had already found a way to play the game on the tablet …

Finally a bit of a shake-up this week on the Steam top ten product charts, as Borderlands 2 has seized the top spot ahead of its launch. On top of that, the game’s DLC season pass offering also clawed its way onto the list finishing in the tenth position. The …

Within three days of the release of the FIFA 13 demo on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, it has been downloaded a record-breaking 2 million times, EA has announced. The number is a 29 per cent increase over the demo download figures for FIFA 12 for the same period. The …