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Citrus Media, publisher of the Australian Game Informer, has released the ABC audit figures for the first half of 2011, showing a marked increase in sales. Game Informer is now selling an average of 39,196 copies per month in Australia and 2,128 in New Zealand, based on January to June …

The Hollywood movie director behind the Resident Evil films has hit out at the directors of poor video game adaptations. Paul WS Anderson’s Resident Evil film series is the most successful video game to movie franchise around, generating billions in revenue across four films and there’s a fifth one due …

Retailer GAME has announced that its GAMEfest event in September will offer visitors the first ever chance to play Modern Warfare 3. This is two months ahead of its official UK release on November 8th. We are delighted that GAMEfest attendees can be the first consumers in the UK to …

Sony has for the first time blocked non PlayStation Plus users from accessing some features found in the latest PS3 firmware update. The update offers both automated Trophy syncing – currently Trophies have to be synced manually – and the ability to automatically have game saves transferred to the cloud. …

MCV speaks to the people behind the hit horror series Shinji Mikami and his team redefined the survival horror genre when they developed Biohazard – aka, Resident Evil – in 1996. Not that anyone expected it at the time. Resident Evil was loosely based on a niche Japanese-only 1989 Famicom …

The horror stories that have made up the iconic Resident Evil series From Game Boy Color to iPhone, through Sega Saturn to Game.com, Resident Evil has built a reputation on almost every console released since 1996 (with the very notable exceptions of PSP, GBA and Xbox) There has been 64 …

Leo Cubbin and Phil Gaskell reveal new outfit RebelPlay

Edinburgh Interactive 11: 'Soaring spend on triple-A has created a hit-driven business'

The Disney Interactive Media Group has seen losses decrease year-on-year, though the division still remains the only one at Disney to be operating at a loss. It does so despite an impressive rise in revenue, climbing 27 per cent year-on-year to $251m for the quarter ending June 2nd. Operating losses …

Influential music industry figure Feargal Sharkey has joined the London Games Conference speaker roster. The former Undertones lead vocalist and current head of record industry trade body UK Music, will deliver an address on lessons that the music industry has learnt during the digital transition. He will talk about the …