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The UK games retail market generated 48.6m in the post-Christmas week – a drop of 45 per cent over the week before. More than 2m video games were sold at retail for the week ending December 31st, representing a 39 per cent week-on-week dip in unit sales. FIFA 12 became …

Epic Games’ two debut iPhone games have generated more than $28 million in just over a single year, the company has announced. Infinity Blade and its sequel, two "triple-A" App Store games, have both accumulated the significant revenues in the space of a single year. The first Infinity Blade game, …

Apple has sparked a new legal battle against websites that facilitate illicit App Store downloads, a new report suggests. The iPhone manufacturer is sending cease and desist letters to the owners of a popular iPhone hacking online resource. The threats, according to aCult of Macreport, have forced the hackers to …

New report claims that all three next gen systems will take stage at LA extravaganza

There will be a chunk of readers who think two new consoles at June’s E3 is at best too premature, or, at worst, expensive folly. Certainly I, like many others, heard a little voice in the back of my mind whispering too soon” when I found out a new Xbox …

As was reported yesterday, end of year trading figures show a gaping 100m hole in the UK games retail market for 2011. According to GfK Chart-Track data, UK games retailers sold 55.4m games during 2011, almost 12 per cent down year-on-year. In terms of revenue, UK retailers made 1.42bn from …

Both the Xbox 360 successor AND a follow up to the PS3 will be shown at E3 2012. The LA show tease will come as Wii U launch details are locked in – and should ensure no ground is lost between competing consoles. It will mark the very first time …

2K Games has announced it will publish a new XCOM strategy title by the end of the year, entitled XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The publisher is already working on an action shooter reboot for the classic strategy series, XCOM, which is due for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC some …

Warner Bros’ download-only Batman shooter has been pushed back to a February release. Gotham City Imposters is a team-based multiplayer game that sees gangs of wannabe Batmans and Jokers battling over territory in the Dark Knight’s home city. Gamers can customise these vigilantes with costumes modelled on familiar Gotham characters, …

Cease and desist warnings sent to iPhone hacking resource, report claims