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Green Man Gaming, NCsoft, ShopTo and OPM are the latest firms to lend their names to the 2012 MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The tenth annual Awards take place on April 19th at new venue the London Lancaster Hotel. It will be hosted by comedian and The Inbetweeners star Greg Davies. …

Revenues reach £1.6 billion

PlayStation has put together a map to show consumers where they can play Vita. The new handheld goes on sale on February 22nd, and is available to play in locations up and down the UK, including all GAME and GameStation stores. You can check out the full map here. It …

Japanese publisher Konami has reported a 77.3 per cent increase in net income to 17,046m for the nine months ending December 31st 2011. Net revenues for the period grew 3.3 per cent to 194,522m while operating income climbed 86 per cent to 30,921m. Digital entertainment revenues in isolation grew 1.6 …

Digital platforms allow devs to circumvent publisher contracts entirely, says O'Luanaigh

Sony’s PlayStation Vita will get a hefty functionality update this week ahead of its US and European launch later in the month. The 1.6 firmware update will, amongst other things, introduce a brand new app to the machine’s home screen – Map. It works in much the same way as …

Just ten per cent of start-ups focus solely on packaged games, Tiga research shows

Mobile app monitoring outfit Crittercism claims that iOS applications crash considerably more often than Android applications. Apple’s iOS 5.01 alone accounted for 28.64 per cent of all application crashes across all iOS and Android mobile devices, asreported by Forbesin a ‘Data dive’ into the Crittercism results. Even normalising for the …

GameStop has issued a ‘no comment’ on rumours it is amongst the bidders for GAME’s overseas business. GAME is in the process of selling off its international operations – which includes stores in France, Spain, Scandinavia, Australia and the Czech Republic. GameStop already has stores in Australia, France and Spain, …

Potential suitors have until Friday to register their interest for the possible acquisition of GAME’s overseas business. GAME confessed last week that it is undergoing a strategic review” of its non-UK operations as it continues to battle it current financial predicament. Rothschild has been appointed to oversee the review. It …