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Nintendo’s 3DS was given a welcome boost in the Japanese charts last week thanks to the arrival of Super Mario 3D Land. Sales of the console more than doubled from 65,041 last week to 145,271, according to Andriasang. That’s more than every other console combined. PSP came second (27,952) followed …

MCV has lost count of the number of review roundups in the last few weeks that have reported astronomical scores for a new release. And here we are again. Just moments ago the review embargo for Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is released worldwide tomorrow, lifted to reveal the …

Publishing giant posts third-quarter income of $148 million

UK games industry charity GamesAid has announced a date and venue for its next Darts Night. It will take place on November 23rd at The Horseshoe pub, 24 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0AG. MPG Universal have signed up as the event’s sponsor. The competition will take place in pairs, and …

Sony has announced that Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception sold 3.8m copies worldwide on its first day of release. The game hit UK retail on November 2nd and entered the charts at No.2 in its first week. This puts the title on track to be the biggest release in the series …

Mobile processor could bring 'console quality graphics' to smartphones

Sony has at last confirmed that it will indeed release a Jak and Daxter HD Collection on PS3. There’s no word yet on a possible release date. The release is far from the first of its kind for Sony, which has already revisited a number of PS2 IPs on PS3 …

The leading specialist games retailer has signed search and social marketing firm Greenlight to help grow its online offering. Greenlight will handle GAME’s search engine optimisation and work alongside the Group’s in-house marketing team providing expertise both on-site and remotely. "We have ambitious plans to treble online revenues in the …

McNamara comes clean in candid interview; Makes no excuses for overtime fiasco; Says news media went too far

Tencent, the owner of successful internet and mobile games developer Riot Games, has posted another set of astronomical numbers. Total revenue for the quarter ending September 30th reached $1.18bn, which is a year-on-year gain of over 11 per cent. It’s the second quarter in a row that revenue has topped …