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Microsoft’s comfortable lead over the competition means it’s not ready to cut Xbox prices yet. The firm went all out on current-gen demos at E3 last week – so no next-gen talk, and no price drop for 360. The success we enjoy year-on-year encourages us to think we’re competitively priced …

The tough times continue for UK games retail, with the latest Chart-Track data showing the market fell 38 per cent last month. 1.8m games were sold in May, generating 45.5m. Both of those figures are almost 40 per cent down compared with the same period in 2011. For the third …

The current downturn in the sales of boxed games has been caused by boring content and no innovation. That’s according to Ubisoft’s Alain Corre, who says the market is desperate for new ideas – and if it doesn’t get it, spending on video games will continue to fall. Currently, the …

Anyone who still believes the games market is too generic should head to the High Street today. Warner Bros has published Lollipop Chainsaw, the latest title from inventive and often outspoken developer Suda51. Sure, zombie-slayers are nothing new but how many star barely-clothed cheerleaders with their boyfriend’s head dangling from …

Computing giant to make 'major announcement' on Monday

Blizzard’s Diablo III was the best selling game in the US in May, according to NPD’s latest numbers. The achievement doesn’t even take digital sales into account, which in Diablo III’s case would have been sizable. There were four other new entries in the US Top Ten – Rockstar’s Max …

The developer behind cult digital PS3 titles Flow, Flower and Journey is going multiplatform. Thatgamecompany has revealed that it has successfully raised $5.5m from Benchmark Capital, Venturebeat reports. And it wants to use the cash to make games for more platforms to reach larger audiences” according to founder and creative …

Today, a massive sale which began earlier this week on selected titles has become what the web site is calling a ‘Final Clearance’ sale. The sale is explicitly pasted on the front of GAME’s Australian web site, and constitutes 60% off the marked price off the already heavily-discounted range from …

Final tally for pay-what-you want collection almost double any previous offering

App development 'like a drug', says Whale Trail developer