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The secret behind Amazon’s success isn’t really a secret at all. The world’s largest online retailer generated some $34bn in revenue last year. Its Kindle device is more popular than ever. And in the UK, its games team is doing the business, picking up a well-deserved MCV Award for its …

Zynga's Facebook stronghold challenged by new EA game, sources say

The next iterations of PlayStation and Xbox hardware can’t come soon enough, according to the UK boss of publisher Ubisoft. When asked by an interview with MCV when he thinks new hardware might be debuted to the public, Rob Cooper replied: "I’ll leave that up to Microsoft and Sony to …

Researchers at US firm and the Hebrew University publish joint paper on spline-based algorithm

Microsoft chief executive is stuck in the past, claims hedge fund manager David Einhorn

Those interested in trying out the latest in high-end glasses-free 3D TV tech will get the chance this weekend thanks to a special screening of the Champions League final between Manchester Untied and Barcelona. The Covent Garden branch of Aussie pub chain Walkabout will show the match on a special …

Movie and music industries will follow on the same path, Facebook boss believes

Research by Ofcom has found that while more people are using mobile broadband than ever before, available bandwidth has decreased and download times have increased. Among the findings was the fact that average download speed is now 1.5Mb/s, while basic webpages take around 8.5 seconds to load, compared to download …

Boxart for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier released on Xbox.com yesterday appeared to confirm Kinect support for the game. As spotted by CVG, the banner of the game says "Better With kinect", suggesting optional support for the peripheral. However, the art was quickly removed and replaced with a version omitting …

The UK’s biggest supermarket is to begin taking pre-orders for this November’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from midnight tonight. Tesco has placed in the ad in a number of national papers today, though it doesn’t state what price it will be selling the game for. It does, however, …