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New numbers from Kantar Worldpanel suggest that Amazon overtook HMV in the three months ending December 25th to become the UK’s biggest entertainment retailer for the first time. Amazon grew its market share from 19.4 per cent to 22.4 per cent throughout the period while HMV’s share slipped 2.1 per …

Twitter hosts first ever publicly-negotiated game publishing deal

God of War co-creator David Jaffe is expected to quit the studio he co-founded in 2007, reports claim. Independent studio Eat Sleep Play, based in Utah, is thought to be issuing redundancies as it finishes wor on the PS3 project Twisted Metal. Regional newspaperSalt Lake Tribuneclaims that eight employees have …

Eat Sleep Play 'restructures to refocus on mobile and digital'

The move toward high-quality HD graphics is detrimental, the creator of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series has argued. "Now that high-quality graphics rule supreme, you can reproduce what you want to communicate visually,” Hironobu Sakaguchi stated in a recent Iwata Asks feature. But at the same time, I don’t know …

Hideo Kojima, the creative mind behind the Metal Gear Solid series, has confirmed a PlayStation Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection. Furthermore, the game will get exclusive new functionality designed to incorporate some of Vita’s exclusive features. You can slice enemy’s throat with knife if you flick the …

Why work for a studio downsized to create digital games when you can do it all yourself?

Retail chain GAME has confirmed that it is to cut 46 jobs from its Basingstoke HQ, MCV can reveal. It comes as part of an internal restructure designed to expand upon GAME’s multi-channel offer and allow it to better to respond to the current video games market”. Current commercial strategy …

Over two thirds of UK games developers are now working on digital games, with only a third left to focus solely on retail games. The findings come from trade association TIGA, which claims that the numbers are symptomatic of a shift away from traditional retail models. "TIGA’s new research shows …

An issue that was preventing some PlayStation Network users from downloading content they have previously paid for has now been resolved. The issues first emerged after last week’s maintenance work. In some cases users saw their complete purchase history vanish from the service. The problems that some users were experiencing …