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Activision has declared that Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best-selling PS3 game of all time. The publisher claimed this achievement had been proved by figures from GfK Chart-Track and NPD, although no sales figures was given. If true, this means Black Ops has topped records set by Gran …

The release of Rift marks the start of a new era for up and coming MMO publisher Trion Worlds. Arriving on shelves today (Friday, March 4th), the game is the company’s first release and culminates five years of work on its unique MMO infrastructure. Promotions kicked off in October, targeting …

InComm Europe will sponsor this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. The company – known for its digital games cards and vouchers for Xbox Live, PSN, RuneScape and more – has signed up as Table Gift Partner. InComm Europe joins fellow sponsors Nintendo, Codemasters, Michael Jackson: The Experience, Sega, The Hut …

Minecraft creator attacks accusations regularly directed toward games piracy

Sony reveals year-on-year PSN traffic and revenue spike at GDC

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In a fascinating statement at GDC’s Indie Games Summit, the Swedish creator of indie PC hit Minecraft has lashed out at some of the ‘myths’ commonly perpetuated about games piracy. Piracy is not theft,” Markus Persson is reported by Edge as saying. If you steal a car, the original is …

Revenues from the online PlayStation Store have risen 70 per cent year-on-year. Sony made the announcement at the 2011 Games Development Conference in San Francisco as part of its PlayStation Network Analysis panel. SCEA digital distribution manager Pierre Gravereau also revealed that traffic to the PlayStation Store increased by 60 …

As has long been speculated, developer Bungie has confirmed that its currently in-development mystery Activision-published game is an MMO. The news comes from Bungie lead network engineer David Aldridge who the title as a "massively multiplayer action game" at GDC, as reported by IGN. However, Aldridge dismissed the idea that …

Mobile phone platform Google Android has been hit by over 50 apps with viruses buried within them. The malicious applications – now removed from the Android Marketplace – were duplicates of legitimate apps which had been modified to include viruses. They had been downloaded between 50,000 and 200,000 times. BBC …