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Shares in publisher THQ dropped by nearly 25 per cent yesterday, with the LA Times claiming that analysts are "spooked" by the lower than expected review scores for new shooter Homefront. At the time of writing the game has a Metacritic average of 72 per cent, placing well below the …

A major exec from publisher EA has both described Wii as a last-gen platform and hinted that Nintendo is already well on the road to announcing a successor. "When you look at Nintendo, for a while there, it was all about the Wii being the biggest entertainment platform ever and …

Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that its still unofficial and unnamed ‘next generation MMO’ will be based around completely original IP. He also discussed ‘Project Titan’, and confirmed that the game would be based around completely original IP. Internally we think of that as a next generation MMO," …

Develop speaks to the engine vendor that's buying and selling

Pokmon Black and White have sold 1m units across Europe since the pair hit shelves on March 4th. The new DS adventure titles beat the previous Pokmon sales record in the UK to become the fastest-selling games in the series. Europe’s total install base for Pokmon titles has also now …

Reviews aggregator Metacritic has – some would say belatedly – added an iOS section to its site to keep track of reviews of games released for Apple’s range of devices. The new section goes live with a huge number of games on its database, though for the time being just …

We quiz Sony Ericsson, EA and Gameloft on what the Play means for the mobile market

NowGamer launched in February 2009. How has it grown in the last two years?NowGamer’s growth – percentage wise – has been dramatic. In last 12 months the site has grown over 200 per cent. You’d expect those kinds of numbers in the first couple of years of launching ,but in …

Imagine Publishing is to update NowGamer.com in a renewed bid to compete with the market leaders. The publisher will integrate movies into its news and features, add more HD content and improve its social networking features. NowGamer 2.0 is a complete revamp of the website,” editor-in-chief Nick Jones told MCV. …

The boxed edition of Tales of Monkey Island has taken Germany by storm, and publisher Lace Mamba Global hopes to repeat the success in the UK. The game has become the top-selling adventure title on Amazon.de for more than eight weeks in a row. It reaches UK shelves on April …