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Nintendo has announced that Just Dance 2 has now sold over 5m copies in the US. It’s only the eighth title to do so and is the first from a third party publisher. Worldwide sales for the game stand at 14m. Here is the complete list of 5m+ sellers: 1. …

Way back in April last year tech blog Gizmodo shocked the tech world with its first and very much unofficial look at Apple’s still unannounced iPhone 4. Now the man behind the scoop has been charged by US police. Brian Hogan sold the handset for $5,000 after supposedly finding it …

Electronics manufacturer Panasonic has landed an exclusive Blu-ray deal that it hopes will win it vital market share this Q4. The company will be offering free copies of the original Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray when consumers purchase any one of a select range of Blu-ray players. The deal coincides …

MCV is celebrating 15 years of Resident Evil with special retrospectives on the franchise. Paul WS Anderson, the Hollywood movie director behind the Resident Evil films, gives us his thoughts on the franchise, and explains why he has deviated from the plot of the games. He also gives us his …

A new report from The Entertainment Merchants Association has revealed that sales of physical games on disc declined significantly in 2010. Gamasutra reports that in 2010 71 per cent of all video games sold in the US were on disc. In 2009 that figure stood at between 80 and 90 …

Edinburgh Interactive: Runescape boss Mark Gerhard offers advice to MMO creators

Edinburgh Interactive: App Store owner backs view that devs should charge more for quality

It may well not be the news that Half-Life 3: Episode 3 hopers have been waiting for, but if talk of Valve’s next potential game is true then gamers are in for a treat. Kotaku reports that word from folk in the testing community has suggested that a brand new …

Codemasters is developing F1 Online: The Game, a free-to-play browser title due in Q1 2012. Consumers can sign up to the game now by visiting the website, www.f1onlinethegame.com. Formula One is a proven major games brand that resonates with players on a global level and is recognised as one the …

The debut Gamescom event in 2009 couldn’t have gone any better, with some 245,000 visitors and 458 exhibitors from 31 countries making it the largest games trade fair in the world. The third Gamescom event kicks off next week on Wednesday August 17th, 2011, and will run until Sunday August …