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CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S COMPREHENSIVE AND FULLY UPDATED RELEASE SCHEDULE. Perhaps the biggest release of the year so far finally arrives on shelves today. Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire tasks players with rising through the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department as they solve cases set in an authentically recreated …

As predicted by MCV, games retail has cut the price of Wii to under 100. GAME, Gamestation and Asda are the first retailers to stock the new Mario Kart bundle (and the existing Wii Sports Resort bundle) for just 99.99. This applies to both in-store and online. HMV has the …

Stark warning issued by Gameloft financial boss; PopCap ponders IPO date

Games based on the LEGO toy brand continue to build in strength with four titles in the UK Top 40. Disney’s LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean sailed to No.2 in its debut week, pipped to the top spot by Brink. LEGO Pirates sits five places ahead of LucasArts’ LEGO Star …

Insider offers more detail on the widely speculated controller

HMV has sold its Waterstone’s business for 53m. It’s significantly more than the 35m mooted by the national press earlier this week. The book store has been sold to major HMV shareholder Alexander Mamut’s company – A&NN Capital Fund Management. It’s a major move for HMV, which is trying to …

Expert team can do a studio's heavy lifting in 'no-win-no-fee' offer

Develop's monthly dissection of a recent hit game

Everyone’s talking about Steam, the App Store and Xbox Live, but one European publishing boss is convinced that physical retail will ‘win the war for digital’. Namco Bandai’s European VP Olivier Comte says shops have an advantage as they are the experts in talking to consumers. His comments follow recent …

Top ten developers rated from 'industry survey of 9,000'