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In-game currency available to purchase power-ups

UKIE’s PC download chart is officially here, with Star Wars: The Old Republic sitting at the top. The new chart is still in beta and represents sales from January. UKIE estimates that it represents around 40 per cent of the overall digital PC market. The chart was put together by …

Upon walking into a Hertfordshire Gamestation store this lunchtime, you’d be hard pressed to tell anything was afoot. Perhaps the emptiness was a surprise, though to be fair even Sainsbury’s was virtually deserted at one o’clock in the afternoon. Talk of barren shelves and suicidal staff is clearly unfounded. The …

Scaleform, Kynapse and HumanIK to be available for next-gen games

New Italian and Spanish branches to open later this year as part of European expansion

Industry sources have told MCV that very nearly 50 per cent of all Vita hardware sold in the UK on launch week was purchased in a GAME or Gamestation store. That, of course, is despite the fact that the chains were not carrying Ubisoft’s Vita launch line-up of Rayman Origins, …

'Significantly higher' than 50 per cent of company's operating profit to come from digital, claims Christian Svensson

Realm of the Mad God daily user retention 'tripled to 37.5 per cent' after numerous game iterations, says Spry Fox CEO

Business development head to discuss 'why social mobile games need a new platform'

Online social games expert Bigpoint is to open an office in the UK, creating between five and ten jobs in the process. It will be doing the same in Paris, too, as the company looks to radically expand its Western European operations. The new teams will be chiefly tasked with …