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Software sales at internet retailer Simply Games have trebled during the past 12 months. Sales are up 198 per cent over last year, and 400 per cent over two years ago. Our expansion over the past 12 months has been quite phenomenal,” Simply Games MD Neil Muspratt told MCV. We …

An investor from the East will be in Los Angeles this June looking for opportunities in the gaming market. Eddy Tang, son of Lygo founder YW Tang, will be attending E3 with UK firm Digital Goals. They are seeking projects that can benefit from both their skills and investment, particularly …

Gamers play Command & Conquer titles for 10.4 hours per week on average – almost an hour more than the typical game. This week, GameVision Brand Map turns to the real-time strategy genre to take a look at one of its earliest franchises: Command & Conquer. We asked 6,724 gamers …

Twitter faux pas, fake, PR stunt or employee blunder? Who knows, but in the mean time there’s nothing to stop us speculating! This morning MCV revealed a picture leaked by a TT Games employee on Twitter that showed an altered version of the Wii U controller currently being used at …

Left 4 Dead and Payday to cross-pollinate

In a no-holds barred interview amidst Diablo III’s ‘always-on DRM’ storm, the developer of The Witcher 2 has blasted the use of digital rights management. Let me dispel the myth about DRM protectinganything. The truth is it does not work. It’s as simple as that,” CD Projekt CEO Marcin Iwinski …

Redesigned pad unwittingly unveiled just three weeks ahead of E3

Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 has beaten Blizzard’s Diablo III to the No.1 spot in the UKIA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s Rockstar’s first No.1 since LA Noire almost a year ago. It’s the first time that a Max Payne title has claimed No.1 in the UK, bettering the …

Retailer JB HiFi has officially admitted that it is selling imported stock in its Australian High Street stores. MCV Pacific reports that, as in the UK, specialist games retailers in the country face growing pressure from price-focused mass-market retailers. In addition, the import scene lives on in Australia, partly due …