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Despite a drop in sales of just under a quarter week-on-week, 505 Games’ hit release Zumba Fitness has claimed its fifth consecutive week at the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In total the game has now claimed eight UK No.1’s. EA’s Harry Potter: The Deathly …

550 to attend this week's Develop Awards, making it most popular ever; Major national media interest

Clever marketing move from a rival? Pet project of a Battlefield fan? The idle amusement of a trouble maker? Whoever’s behind the ModernWarfare3.com domain ‘scandal’, they’ve clearly irritated Activision. Fusible.com reports that the publisher has filed an official domain name dispute with the National Arbitration Forum over the website, which …

Jury Rig's Darren Vine on managing memory allocation

Namco Bandai have announced a single screening of the animated feature Tekken: Blood Vengeance to take place in Sydney on 27 July. This screening will be one of a very select number worldwide, and the only screening to take place in Australia. Tekken Blood Vengeance 3D is being produced by …

Yet another publisher has announced plans to introduce and EA Online Pass type system into its future releases. Following rumours last week, Ubisoft has now confirmed that September release Driver: San Francisco will be the first game to include what is to be called the Uplay Online Pass. As with …

Australian independent game developer Brawsome has confirmed today that its puzzle adventure game MacGuffin’s Curse, will be releasing on 27 October for PC, Mac (via Steam), iPad and iPhone. MacGuffin’s Curse will see players participating in top-down action puzzles alongside character-based story adventuring. Brawsome have previously been responsible for the …

The splintered relationship between Electronic Arts and Valve appears to have worsened, with Gamestop now claiming that Battlefield 3 will be blocked from Steam. The upcoming EA DICE shooter will be available digitally on other platforms, including Gamestop’s, an unnamed executive at retailer also said. Financial research firm Baird recently …

Half of gamers say they wouldn’t purchase downloadable in-game content if it wasn’t for retail merchandising. The findings were revealed in a survey by US retail chain GameStop, which says the bulk of its digital content is made up of DLC sales. A statement about GameStop from research firm Baird …

Publishers 'are receptive to a Steam rival', research firm Baird says