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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 …

Game engine innovator to be honoured award at DICE

Popular NCsoft Euro boss Vronique Lallier has left the MMO publisher to take up a senior digital position at Warner Bros. She takes the role of vice president of digital publishing for international at Warner Bros Entertainment. Lallier has 11 years of experience in the games industry, joining NCsoft Europe …

'My Xbox Live' gives customers mobile access to their gaming account

Publisher THQ has dropped its Q3 financial estimates after the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the uDraw tablet peripheral failed to hit sales expectations. THQ says that is expects to drop guidance by around 25 per cent from $510-550m to around $383-413m. It had expected the period to be …

iPad and iPhone users can now access their Xbox Live account via an official Microsoft app. The iOS software allows 360 owners to sign in and interact with their friends without the need for a console, according to Major Nelson. They can read and send messages, manage their friends list …