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The US video games market suffered yet another month of decline in September, according to the latest data from NPD. Its overall value fell six per cent year-on-year to $1.16bn. Console hardware suffered a nine per cent drop to $349m. Microsoft once again bossed the market selling 438k Xbox 360 …

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The first DLC for Square Enix’s highly successful Deus Ex: Human Revolution, called The Missing Link, has been given a release date of October 18th. It will cost 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live or 8.99 on the PlayStation Network and PC. The content details exactly what happened to protagonist …

We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and the leading campaigns from September. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Another week of year-on-year decline has resulted in the year-to-date growth figure being revised downwards again to 13 per cent. …

Electronic Arts has begun a formal consultation process at EA Bright Light, with redundancies and outright studio closure both possible. The Guildford studio, which most recently worked on a Harry Potter game for EA, recently underwent an internal review of current and future projects. After a review, Electronic Arts has …

Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting. 3.2mWorldwide sales of FIFA 12, with over 1m sold in the UK. The iOS app has also been downloaded 879,000 times in its first week.Read more: 1 week, 3.2m sales –FIFA 12 is a …

If the first few reviews to go live in the minutes that have followed the lifting of the UK Batman: Arkham City review embargo are anything to go by, then Warner Bros will next week release something very, very special. Here’s a selection of the first few round-ups: Spong – …

Publisher insists UK 'remains a vital game development center for EA'

Battlefield 3 will ship with an Online Pass code in the box that will be needed to access the game’s expansive multiplayer features. The news was confirmed by DICE designer Alan Kertz on Twitter. When pressed on the reasons for the decision, he said that the decision to use the …

UK studio group loses second exec in four months