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GAME must become a smaller, more dedicated specialist should it survive administration, says top games publishers. Earlier this week the chain entered administration and closed 277 stores. Suppliers have told MCV that any new company that emerges must stock a bigger range, reduce its focus on pre-owned and find a …

Oour specialist retail chain is in dire straits, and Britsoft publishers are extinct. But the Coalition Government’s games tax break will re-establish British talent on the global stage, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has told MCV. He said the Government chose a wider subsidy to attract big firms to make more …

Activision has announced that Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be released in the US on August 28th. That likely means a European and UK arrival on August 31st. The date comes from a new trailer for the game hosted by GameSpot that can be seen below.

Despite previous reports stating the contrary, a Windows Phone 7 version of Angry Birds Space is in fact in the works according to Rovio CEO Mikael Hed. "We are working towards getting Angry Birds Space to WP7," Hed told Reuters; putting to rest the earlier media reports that the games …

MCV has been led to believe that the GAME saga will come to a welcome close earlier than expected. Sources close to the negotiations are certain that a deal to save the retailer is incredibly close, with a likely exit from administration as early as tomorrow (Friday March 30th). Furthermore, …

The inevitable licensed Euro 2012 title from EA Sports will be a digital-only release, MCV can reveal. Furthermore, the game will skip a stand-alone release entirely and instead be made available as a DLC expansion for existing title FIFA 12. Called EA Sports UEFA Euro 2012, the download includes all …

THQ and Adidas have settled a $10m lawsuit over the fitness title miCoach. The sports brand was suing THQ for failing to provide software for tracking exercise akin to Nike+ and Garmin running watches. "Adidas and THQ have amicably resolved the dispute, which will allow Adidas to get the miCoach …

Analyst Michael Pachter thinks GameStop would not stock an anti-used console

PlayStation 4 allegedly codenamed Orbis; System to use AMD GPU and CPU combo

Yet another rumour has pointed to the next PlayStation launching alongside the Xbox 360 successor in 2013. But Kotaku claims to have word from what it calls a reliable source” of some quite detailed specs for the new machine, way beyond anything published to date. Firstly, it claims the new …