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The decision to cut the price of the PS3 is not related to market pressures and has been planned for over a year, Sony has said. We see a lot of opportunity in the market, and I want to note that we’ve been planning this price drop for quite some …

Digital platform planned for the next PC operating system

Microsoft has announced that the next version of its Windows PC operating system will include an App Store. The company hasn’t detailed anything relating to strategy but did confirm that it has assembled an App Store team as it continues to build its new OS. Of course, Microsoft is no …

Sweeping transformation at world's largest PC maker

The game that many think could be EA’s killer social gaming IP is out of beta and has gone live. The publisher says that the free-to-play Facebook game already has just short of 5m monthly active users. The game itself, which was developed by EA-owned studio Playfish, combines the iconic …

Things may be tough for Xbox 360 in Japan, but after over five years of trying to crack the territory Microsoft has said that it has absolutely no intention of backing out of the region. And it’s the country’s rich development heritage that seems to be the root cause of …

In news that appears to have been largely ignored by the mainstream media, HP last night made a dramatic announcement that points to the drastically changing times in the PC sector. HP last night shocked the tech industry by announcing the discontinuation of its webOS tablet and smartphone platforms, comprising …

The PriceWaterhouseCoopers Media Australian Media and Entertainment Outlook 2011-2015 was outlined at the iGEA event last night. The report lists the average yearly growth by revenue of mature videogame markets (USA, UK, France, Germany etc) at 3.9%, and has Australia at a marginally higher 4.1%. Asia-Pacific countries, however, have an …

The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA) held an industry briefing in Sydney yesterday to give an overview of the market. The event housed publishers, retailers, journalists, college representatives and for the first time the Attorney-Generals’ department, and presented the 2011-2015 media outlook by PriceWaterhouseCoopers the latest findings from Roy …

John Broomhall speaks to Codemasters about the great Britsoft racing heritage