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The NPD Group has released its monthly US retail report for July, confirming a year over year decline in spending for the eighth month in a row. Total industry spending was down 20 per cent, coming in at $548.4m compared to $686.3m during July 2011. NPD, seemingly prepping us for …

Bllizzard reports its online matchmaking and game data service Battle.net was hacked this past weekend, adding that certain account info has been compromised. The company states that all regions outside of China were affected, and that the hackers gained unauthorized access to a list of email addresses associated with Battle.net …

Deadlines for main and student showcase Oct. 17th and 31st respectively

Sony boss admits attracting developers to handheld has been difficult

Next year’s Grid 2 will represent the biggest investment British publisher Codemasters has ever made in a video game. Codemasters announced the sequel to the BAFTA award-winning racer earlier this week, showing the games media new technology and advanced features that have been in development for almost five years. It …

New Epic branch working on spin-off to hit iOS franchise

Booya for Ouya, bender on Slender and minger for Zynga. Which roughly translated means that it’s been a great day for Ouya, a bad day for the MCV journalist forced to play horrific indie title Slender and really not the best 24 hours for Zynga. This is the news. Codemasters …

New Maryland-based office staffed by a number of former Big Huge Games employees

Co-founder Steve Wang to replace John De Margheriti at the helm

In the third of our four EA interviews, EA Games marketing boss Laura Miele discusses Dead Space, Need for Speed, Medal of Honor and Battlefield 3 How was E3 for EA Games?We did something interesting this year in that we waited until E3 to announce Dead Space 3, Need for …