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EA COO Peter Moore has issued a stark warning to his rival publishers – you’ll die off if you’re not ready for the digital transition. Conceding that a certain element of consolidation is inevitable within the publishing sector over the next few years, Moore emphasized that all publishers need to …

OnLive appears eager to end its direct competition with the established home consoles, with one of the company’s executives openly encouraging Sony and Microsoft to incorporate the cloud game tech. Bruce Grove, OnLive’s newly appointed general manager for the UK, said the company is willing to talk about provide cloud …

In October, developer Rockstar GamesrevealedGTA III was in development to celebrate the tenth anniversary since the original release, and would arrive later in the "fall". Following the original announcement, Rockstar has confirmed the official release date will be on December 15th. The mobster-packed game is available for iOS and Android …

Croteam sneaks unstoppable enemy into illicit copies of Serious Sam 3

A new website has launched that allows gamers to compare the trade-in prices offered by retailers for specific video games. Playr2.com claims to be the first trade-in price comparison engine. As well as prices offered for titles, the site also details any requirements of a trade-in – game condition, timeframe …

The UK games marketgenerated 62.2m last week,up 13.9 per cent over theseven days prior. Unit salesalso rose 19.6 per cent from1.9m to 2.2m in the firstweek of December. Activision’s Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 3 beatdown the competition againlast week, topping the chartsahead of FIFA 12 andAssassin’s Creed:Revelations. The CoD gamealso …

New UK boss talks up the potential of service partnerships

Recent release inFamous: Festival of Blood has become the fastest selling PS3 game ever on the PlayStation Network. The game is the first title to be released by developer Sucker Punch since it became a Sony owned studio in August of this year. Festival of Blood is a standalone title …

Peter Moore, the high-profile COO of publisher EA, has insisted that its recent release Battlefield 3 successfully captured a slice of Modern Warfare 3’s market share. That’s despite Activision’s game becoming the fastest selling entertainment product of all time. In EA’s favour, however, the game failed to best the week …

When you think about it, invincible red scorpions should have been employed as an anti-piracy measure long before now. Fortunately those clever chaps at Croteam have at last utilised the tool in its recent shooter Serious Sam 3. DSOGaming reports that those playing an illegal copy of the game are …