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Eurogamer has announced that Bethesda’s much hyped RPG The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo that kicks off on September 22nd. It’s the first chance that the general public will have to get their hands on the game, which will be released in the UK …

The pre-owned games sector is very beneficial to the health of the overall games sector, retailer GameStop has argued. Though they rarely express the opinion publicly, many publisher execs consider pre-owned games as unfairly robbing them of revenue that is instead reserved exclusively for retailers. But GameStop’s executive VP Mike …

'We want to provide many more services to studios,' Yoshida says

Grainger Games is subverting expectations and transforming itself into a serious games brand by hiring retail veterans. MCV speaks to the new-look senior management team to find out what comes next. You have secured some retail veterans from not just Gamestation and HMV, but also Holland & Barrett and Asda. …

UKIE members will get a ten per cent discount on a full price ticket to the London Games Conference. The games trade organisation has signed on as an official partner of the November 10th event which looks at new digital business models for games publishers, retailers and developers. Keynotes at …

Shuhei Yoshida says 'dangerous kinds of interactivity' is just years away

UK games industry charity GamesAid will hold a charity pool tournament on September 1st. The tournament is being sponsored by European manufacturing specialists OK Media. It will be held at the Hurricane Rooms, Kings Cross and kicks off 6pm. Entry to the competition costs 20 per person. Players will need …

Trade group members get ten per cent off LGC tickets; Event set for November 10th

Immaculate graphical fidelity no longer a dream, says Sony boss

Following its surprise discontinuation last week, HP’s ‘fire sale’ of TouchPad tablets resulted in brisk sales and rapid selling out of stock over the weekend in the United States. Following the announcement of a withdrawal from WebOS powered hardware, HP again cut the price of the TouchPad to an astonishing …