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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

Retail giant GameStop saw year-on-year profit fall from $40.3m to $30.9m during its fiscal quarter ending July 30th. Total sales dipped 3.1 per cent to $1.74bn for the quarter from the $1.8bn generated during the same period last year. Digital sales increased 69 per cent. However, profit before tax and …

GAMESCOM:Tecmo KOEIhas announced that Ninja Gaiden 3 will include full support for the PlayStation Move controller. It’s the first third party title in some time to confirm support for the controller. We are really excited to announce this fantastic news at Gamescom”, Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi stated. Ninja Gaiden 3 …

Mobile marketing agency Somo has proved itself a pioneer in the discovery space, having built an augmented reality app for Audi that lets users ‘drive’ cars around their phones via an AR trigger. The company will talk more aboutthis projectand explain its vision for the technology at ‘Monetising Mobile: Next …

Minecraft firm signs up Cobalt from Oxeye; Small indie's team has been working from Mojang studio, shares staff

GAMESCOM: The games industry is no stranger to public bickering. And as much as the media (secretly) loves it, Activision publishing boss Eric Hirshberg has called for calm. It’s one thing to want your game to succeed and another thing to actively, publicly say you want other games to fail," …