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What an age we live in when retailer bosses admit that their chains are on the road to extinction. Having yesterday posted a loss for its last financial year, HMV boss Simon Fox – who will step down from his role early next month – has made a remarkable admission …

Mobile Pie's Will Luton ponders games as machines - products of vision and technical engineering

Rising Star Games will release four titles for Nintendo 3DS in the run-up to Christmas. The UK publisher’s autumn 2012 line-up kicks off in September with cerebral platformer Shifting World, which features a striking black and white art style (pictured). This will be followed by Girls’ Fashion Shoot in October, …

In the final part of our four interview with Electronic Arts bosses, EA Interactive VP Nick Earl discusses how mobile and social is shaping the future of the publisher Where does EA?Interactive fit in with the wider EA business?We’ve got six labels: EA Sports, EA Games, Bioware, Maxis, PopCap and …

Eight months into latest portable gaming project, Sony has admitted to key struggles with the PlayStation Vita. The PlayStation legacy is built upon the still unrivalled third-party support successfully attracted to PS2, so it’s ironic that third parties are proving to be the Vita’s major stumbling block. Sony Worldwide Studios …

A pair of multiplayer modes may be out of Bioshock Infinite, following word yesterday that a handful of key staff had departed from the game’s development team. Kotaku reports that a pair of long-rumoured co-op modes have been completely axed from the game. The two modes included a tower-defense type …

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