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Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has claimed its fourth successive UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats No.1. The game actually increased its sales week-on-week for the first time since its launch last month, albeit only by two per cent. The festive gifting buying season also boosts EA’s FIFA 12, …

The Gears of War man gets the rapid-fire question treatment

With Sony preparing to try something a bit different with its pricing strategy for Vita software, Konami has revealed that it is looking to be equally as experimental. The publisher has readied new title AR Combat Digi Q for a digital release in Japan on the same day that Vita …

We already know that games for the PlayStation Vita will cost less to download than they will at the shops. But US price aggregation site Thrifty Nerd claims to have word direct from a Sony representative that digital Vita games will cost a staggering 40 per cent less than their …

Chair Entertainment's latest becomes most popular game; Highest grossing app

But battery life lower than Apple's A5 chip

PlayStation firm 'not giving up' despite Adobe backing away from mobiles

Firm's stock market launch due December 15th

A market researcher has stated that Amazon may have sold as many as two million units of its Kindle Fire tablet. The CEO of eDataSource, Carter Nicholas, toldCNetthat there had been around 850,000 units sold directly by Amazon, but said that total sales could be in excess of two million …

Markus Persson (aka Notch), the creator of hit PC title Minecraft, has after four years stepped away from the game to focus on other projects. Ongoing development of the IP will from this point on be handled by new Minecraft lead developer Jens Bergensten, who has been working on the …