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Morrisons has ended its 14-year relationship with MBL Group, forcing the distributor to put itself up for sale. The firm has been in discussion with Morrisons for months to try and secure a new contract. 78 per cent of MBL’s turnover in its last financial year was made through its …

Former Sony Studios boss and general partner at London Venture Partners Phil Harrison has dismissed Saturo Iwata’s recent criticism of the App Store revolution at GDC. "Iwata-san has done an incredible job rebuilding Nintendo over the last few years," Harrison told Industry Gamers. "He is a great leader of that …

Sales of Apple’s iPad 2 came close to 1m units in the US over the tablet’s opening weekend, news agency Reuters is reporting. The original iPad took 28 days to hit that sales barrier upon its launch in April 2010. "Our field checks over the weekend indicate that the iPad …

Having never succeeded in standing toe-to-toe with Apple’s mighty iPad series, reports are claiming that Microsoft is ready to call an end to its Zune hardware business. However, it doesn’t mean the end of the Zune brand – that will continue to be leveraged as a mussy and movie sales …

Develop interviews one of the last unashamedly 'old-model' studios of Ferrari-like tech, dev autonomy and big gambles

Major US publishers are on the verge of revolt against NPD, according to a CNN report. The likes of EA and Activision see the group’s monthly retail sales bulletins as ‘misleading and potentially irrelevant’. That’s because the reports don’t factor in Xbox Live, PSN or iTunes data,. "Using NPD data …

Developer Different Cloth reveals poor sales figures

Sony Online Entertainment game to be the first of its kind on PSN

Sony has announced that PS3 MMO title DC Universe Online will be released on the PlayStation Store as a downloadable purchase. It will cost 39.99 in the UK and €49.99 in mainland Europe. It will include a free 30-day subscription to the game. No firm release date has yet been …

As Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka warns tablet market could eat into consoles