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US Studio developing 'new music-based motion gaming' title

Indian games distributor E-Xpress Interactive has expanded its E-play range of low priced PC games to over 120 titles. The E-play catalogue contains games priced between Rs 199 ($4) and Rs 299 ($6) from publishers such as Ubisoft, Square Enix, THQ, Sega and Take-Two. While console gaming remains the highest …

The Trials Evolution studio's boss on the freedom of being acquired

Electronics company Flextronics building new system at Texas branch, claim sources

The games and consoles TV advertising market is at a five-year low.This market consists of six key sectors, and we’re going to look at which are responsible for the decline. The bars in the chart (below) represent the year-on-year percentage change in TV activity. The squares demonstrate the relative contribution …

Over a third of Pokmon players are female, according to a new GameVision Brand Map report. 39 per cent of all players of Nintendo’s huge franchise are female, which is higher than the average game (31 per cent).Males aged 15 to 19 comprise a further 13 per cent of the …

The launch of Prototype 2 helped the boxed market rise slightly over the prior week, with overall unit sales up five per cent to 441,401 games sold. It’s Activision’s first No.1 of the year. UK games retail generated 10.45m overall from sales last week – an increase of eight per …

Social network founder more than twice as rich as media mogul Rupert Murdoch, $3bn more than Microsoft CEO

Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting. 284mLoss reported at Nintendo for the year ending March 31stRead more 17.3mUncharted games sold worldwide to dateRead more 2.1%Decline in like-for-like store sales at GameStop for its financial year ending January 28th, 2012Read more …

Fresh reports this morning are claiming that the Next Xbox console is already in the manufacturing stage. IGN speculates that with a 2013 launch now looking very likely, these early machines are possibly dev units” – that is, basic versions of the machine designed for use by studios currently working …