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Sales of PS3 hardware have enjoyed a significant spike in the UK following the machine’s price cut. A reliable retail source has told MCV that Sony’s machine saw a sales increase of nearly 65 per cent week-on-week following the decision to cut the RRP of the base model to just …

Its long development cycle may give the impression of fraught relationships behind the scenes, but developer Gearbox has got nothing but praise for 20th Century Fox. The studio is currently hard at work on tense shooter title Aliens: Colonial Marine. And speaking to GameSpot, Gearbox’s chief creative officer Brian Martel …

From Final Fantasy to Mass Effect, the RPG of today is barely recognisable compared to the titles that made the genre great. This perhaps explains why in the latest video for Mass Effect 3, BioWare almost completely ignored the RPG elements of the title to instead focus on the in-game …

What an achievement. 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness has this week claimed its tenth successive UK No.1. It’s the games 13th time atop of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. However, the chances of Zumba claiming its 14th No.1 next week are less enticing, what with the upcoming arrival …

Just last week Activision’s Eric Hirshberg called out EA for trash talking the Call of Duty series. Can you imagine the head of Dreamworks animation coming out with a new movie and going to the press and saying that he wants Toy Story to ‘rot from the core’?”, the exec …

Freeplay 2011, the independent games festival held annual in Melbourne, has drawn to a successful close and plans are afoot for Freeplay 2012. The festival ran from Wednesday 17th to Sunday 21st August, and played host to hands-on time with various titles, speeches from leading local developers, panel discussions, workshops …

THQ has announced the Australian and New Zealand retailers for its Saints Row: The Third ‘Maximum Pleasure’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ editions. JB HiFi will be carrying the ‘Maximum Pleasure Edition’, which will feature the game, a Professor Genki stuntman key-ring, hyper-replica head and a banner pen, and will retail for …

The man behind Limbo gets the rapid-fire question treatment

In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Warner is looking for a new sales manager, THQ’s John Aikins heads to Sony and GAME hires a Knight. NEW SALES JOB AT WARNERWarner Bros Interactive Entertainment is hiring a new manager of sales analysis for the …

The sun has set on another Gamescom, with only the consumer days left to go, but did you keep up with the week’s announcements? No? Well, fear not. Below, MCV provides a complete round-up of all the news to emerge from Gamescom over the past few days. SONYSony: Vita will …