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THQ’s new IP Homefront beat Pokmon and a string of high-profile EA titles to become the biggest selling game of March. The result – combined with strong sales of WWE and uDraw – helped THQ leap up the publisher rankings. The firm is now amongst the Top Five publishers in …

A new Doctor Who 3DS case will reach retail next month. The Doctor Who and Daleks Accessory Pack is due on May 10th, 2011 with an RRP of 14.99. It arrives shortly after the first new episodes in the brand new Doctor Who series, which kicks off this weekend (Saturday, …

Sarah Kaye has been waiting to take the games hot seat at Tesco for over six months. She was recruited from Activision in June last year to eventually succeed former games chief John Stanhope. Stanhope is part of Tesco’s director development programme and as a result was recently tasked with …

Specialist PC publisher Excalibur will release a boxed version of digital hit Zombie Driver. The action title was nominated for Racing Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards last year. It was previously download-only and was originally released in 2009 by Exor. Now Excalibur is bringing it to …

Committed readers of MCV will know that the contrast between last week’s cover stories and this week’s couldn’t be starker. But such is the diversity of games now that one week we might be talking analytics and digital downloads, the next hoary but no less important topics like supermarkets and …

Of all the things you expect Tesco to talk about, cloud gaming, the digital future and saving physical product is not amongst them. Those are the topics you imagine GAME to harp on about at its next strategy update. Not the head of entertainment at a retailer that’s primary business …

A small-scale retailer is on the cusp of transformation after hiring two GAME veterans. Big Retail, the chain of entertainment stores operated by distributor MBL, recently welcomed David Webb and Steve Wilde to its ranks, MCV can reveal. We understand MBL hopes to open several new websites and High Street …

Gameloft have launched a new free-to-play version of popular first-person shooter NOVA on Facebook.

A video game based on hugely popular game show The Cube will be released on consoles later this year. The title will be published by Koch’s Europress division as part of a partnership with series producers Objective Productions, distributors All3Media International and Route 1. Currently in its third series on …

PS3 owners have been given an extra incentive to sign up to PlayStation Plus, the premium version of Sony’s online gaming network. Subscribers who sign up to the 39.99 a year service between now and May 3rd will receive 15 months membership instead of 12 months. Existing members won’t miss …