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Dragon Age II is the UK’s new No.1, according to the latest chart info released by UKIE GfK Chart-Track. It’s EA’s third No.1 of 2011 and marks the fourth week the publisher has claimed a game at the chart summit. In doing so it bumps last week’s chart topper Pokemon …

Sega and its UK studio Sports Interactive have pledged to donate a portion of revenues to a Japan earthquake relief fund. All money generated from the iPhone app Football Manger Handheld 2011, over a seven day period, will be channelled to a charity aiming to help and restore the disaster-struck …

February was a tough month for UK retail, with sales of new boxed games down 23 per cent year-on-year. In total 3,261,590 games were sold last month. In terms of revenue retail took home 72.6m. This was down 22.1 per cent compared to February 2010. Once again 360 was the …

Publisher Ubisofot has confirmed via its Facebook page that Xbox 360 Kinect title Child of Eden will be released on June 14th. No further details are given, though as that’s a Tuesday presumably that’s the North American date. That means a probable European arrival on June 17th. Ever since its …

According to NPD numbers Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect peripherals is consistently outselling Sony’s rival PS3 Move controller by a ratio of 5:1, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. "Under one-fifth of PS3 sales included bundles with Sony’s Move controller, suggesting another modest month," he wrote in a note to …

Sports Interactive boss announces seven-day charity drive

Lionhead built an adventure around the project, new images suggest

Back in September 2010 Microsoft made the bold claim that "there’s been a mid-generation leadership change" in the hardware market. Now it looks like it might just have been right. Speaking in an investor note, Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that if current sales trends persist, Xbox …

Publisher Warner Interactive has at last confirmed a firm release date for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC action outing Batman: Arkham Asylum. The game will be released in the UK on October 21st. It follows in the footsteps of Rocksteady Studios’ surprise hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, which in 2009 rocked …

The arrival of two new handheld platforms will bring high-end mobile technologies to the market, but also a significant increase in project budgets, according to developers working in the field. One studio head told Develop that 3DS launch titles clearly have budgets two-to-three times what typical DS games have seen …