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The significant Japanese aspirations of retail giant Tesco appear to be over. Reuters reports that the supermarket chain has sold 50 per cent of its business to Japan’s second largest retailer Aeon Corp for a nominal sum. Tesco currently operates 117 stores in the country since paying 32.8bn for the …

One major games publisher has admitted that he remains to be convinced about the prospects of core games titles on Nintendo’s Wii U. As it always does when a new generation is approaching, Nintendo has made big noise about the presence of core IP on its upcoming machine, with Ubisoft …

Suspect roadmap claims next-gen console to cost $299 and will release in 2013 alongside Kinect 2

Valve has hired economics professor Yanis Varufakis, who will be helping the games company navigate the labyrinth of digital economies. Varufakis, a native of Athens, has become well known for mixing labyrinths and economics as an influential commenter on the Euro Zone Crisis, and author of "The Globabl Minotaur". It …

The British Board of Film Classification notes the BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition as headed for a UK release. The pack will include Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and all of the latter’s DLC, Eurogamer reports. Without an official announcement from 2K Games, we’re left to guess on platform/pricing/release info; or if the …

A game show pilot based on the mobile hit game Draw Something is being produced for CBS. Variety reports the television network will ready a pilot of the Zynga acquisition, after beating out several other networks in a bidding war for the rights to the pitch. Sony Pictures Television, Embassy …

Nintendo has provided new details for the Kirby anthology announced at their Nintendo Direct event this past April. VG247 reports Kirby’s Dream Collection (as it’s now being referred to) will arrive in Japan next month on July 19th, with a September release planned for North America and Europe. One NES, …

Valve has announced Steam’s top ten selling titles and products from the past week. Looks like Stardock made the right move finally coming around to the idea of their titles on distributors outside of Impulse (now currently owned by GameStop), as the latest in the Sins of a Solar Empire …

Changes to industry 'good for developers, not good for retailers'

No, we don’t think so either. But the latest rumour about tomorrow’s expected Microsoft ‘iPad rival’ unveiling says the new device is an ereader table that ‘streams Xbox Live’. [UPDATE: TechCrunch, via Twitter, has clarified to the author of this piece what it means but ‘Xbox Live streaming’ – apparently, …