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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 …

Rigging and interactive posing capabilities added into new character animation tools

'Kids today don't make a distinction between the screens they're playing on', says Insomniac boss

Wednesday March 7th at 6:00pm GMT – that’s when we’ll finally find out what Apple has in store for the third generation of its iPad. There are many sites devoted to nothing but Apple rumours, but for those without a spare two weeks to catch up with every morsel of …

There’s more bad news on the High Street today with conformation that Choices UK owner The Webb Group has been entered into administration. Francis Graham Newton and Paul James Bates of BDO LLP were appointed as joint administrators last Friday. The Group was the home of nine brands – Choices …