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It might not feel like it on the High Street right now, but the British Retail Consortium has said UK retail enjoyed a dazzling” December. It reports that like-for-like sales for the month were up 2.1 per cent year-on-year, with total sales climbing 4.1 per cent. Of course, the snow …

Studio emptied of remaining 20 staff, Develop understands, as firm enters administration

The competition from supermarkets and online retailers has lead HMV to admit that it is reconsidering its interest in the video games market. Though the retailer’s market share remained static for both music and DVDa, its gaming market share fell by 16 per cent over Christmas. Games now account for …

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Though we are still waiting for the appearance of OnLive’s long-awaited gaming app, the company will this Thursday release a new iPad app that brings the Windows 7 desktop to the device. Called OnLive Desktop, the software provides instant, streaming access to programmes such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. …

At CES in Las Vegas, Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech finally revealed a concrete global sales number for Kinect – 18m units. After shifting an impressive 8m units in its first few weeks on the market, the device went on to sell just a further 2m in the months up until …

A dual US-Iranian citizen has been sentenced to death for allegedly producing games encoded with western-leaning sentiments, as part of a wider CIA plan to stimulate a revolution within the country, according to state media reports. Tehran aired a televised confession of Arizona-born Amir Mirza Hekmati(pictured), who appeared to admit …

A UK and Ireland Christmas sales slump of 17.6 per cent for the eight weeks ending January 7th has lead GAME to admit that it might have to rely on the good will of lenders to survive. Described by BBC Radio 5’s Breakfast programme this morning as the worst UK …

In excess of 6.5m PlayStation consoles were sold worldwide in the period between November 18th to December 31st, Sony has estimated. Of those sales the new PlayStation Vita contributed half a million units following its Japanese launch on December 17th. Sony added that over 70 Vita games are currently in …

Fallout MMO effectively scrapped as all rights, including merchandise and prior games, are surrendered to Bethesda