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A total of 58 jobs have been lost following the Webb Group’s descent into administration, MCV can confirm. One victim of the Group’s collapse is games retailer Choices UK, which had lived on as an online brand following its collapse as a High Street retailer in 2007. Administrators BDO confirm …

Indie retail giant ShopTo.net has kicked off a three-month promotional drive that will see the brand take to UK TV sets. The shorts, one of which can be seen below, will air during this week’s Champions League games on ITV and will lead with next week’s release Mass Effect 3. …

2K Czech creating animations for general gameplay and cut scenes, claims source

The Nintendo 3DS has sold nearly twice as many units in the US in its first year than the DS managed in the same time period. The news comes as Nintendo celebrates the machine’s first birthday. And in case any hangers on still think the console has been a flop, …

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, …