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Nine consecutive weeks and 12 No.1’s in total. 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness has been THE big success story of the UK summer games market. The console title holds onto No.1 despite a seven per cent drop in sales. In fact, it has already become the seventh best selling third party …

UK studio to unveil Joe Danger: The Movie at Gamescom

There is part of the community you’ll never be able to please,” says Mark Gerhard, the CEO of one of Britain’s most successful games studios. His company, Jagex, has become an elite force in the UK. That’s mainly due to flagship MMO Runescape – launched in 2001 – that Jagex …

Developer and publisher Valve has confirmed the rumours of a brand new game in the Counter Strike series. Called Counter Strike: Global Offensive, it’s due out not only on PC and Mac but also as a downloadable game on both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in early 2012. It …

French mobile publisher to take advantage of Louisiana financial incentives

Anticipated Valve shooter to make its way to download console networks

Online retailer Zavvi has grabbed a tasty Metal Gear Solid HD worldwide exclusive. For 69.85 consumers can now pre-order what is being called the Metal Gear Solid: Ultimate HD Collection for PS3. Only 4,000 copies are going be made available worldwide, the retailer claims. And there’s certainly no way anyone …

While Nintendo’s most senior executives were publicly criticising the App Store for ‘weakening the value’ of games, behind closed doors Apple may be advocating premium prices on its influential digital store. According to UK studio Somethin’ Else, Apple encouraged the group to raise the price of its award-winning iOS game …

EA have an entirely new team running the Asia-Pacific region from its Sydney office, which is headed up by former EA UK sales director Mark Bradley. Bradley previously spend almost 5 years working at EA in the UK in multiple sales roles before becoming the general manager of the Nordic …

GAME will be selling PlayStation Network games in-store across all its 620 UK stores by mid-September. This morning the pair announced a partnership to start selling digital content at bricks and mortar – at first a range of over 50 games will be sold via 42 stores, gradually rolling out …