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Dead Space 2 has sold twice as many copies than its predecessor did in release week. The 360, PS3 and PC game shot to No.1 earlier this week – five positions higher than the original Dead Space did in October 2008 when it was released as a new IP. Dead …

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Publisher EA has confirmed that BioWare-developed MMO Star Wars: Old Republic will not now release this spring and will instead ship some time in the next fiscal year. This means it could potentially arrive as late as March 2012, though MCV understands that September 2011 remains EA’s target launch date. …

Former Edge man to work across leading brands Develop, MCV and CasualGaming.biz

Google unveiled the results of a sting operation which shows that Microsoft have been capturing Google search results and placing them into the competing Bing search engine. The issue relates to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Bing Toolbar which apparently passes search queries and visited web pages to Microsoft servers …

EA has begun 2011 in much the same way as it did in 2010 – by promising fewer, better and bigger titles going forwards. The mantra was repeated by both CEO John Riccitiello and COO John Schappert in a conference call to investors, according to Gamsutra. The claims, though, are …

Julian House has been appointed international sales manager of Intent Media’s games division. He joins from February 1st and will be working across leading brands such as MCV, MCV Awards, London Games Conference, Develop, Develop 100, Develop Awards, Games Media Awards, Sourcebook and CasualGaming.biz. House joins from Future Publishing, where …

EA made as much money on PS3 software as it did on Xbox 360 for the first time in the quarter ending December 31st 2010. Net revenue for PS3 was up 19 per cent year-on-year to $282m. In contrast, Xbox 360 revenues fell 18 per cent to $285m, leaving both …

Publisher EA has reported a net loss of $322m for its Q3 ending December 31st 2010 – a year-on-year increase of nearly 300 per cent. Revenues for the period were down 15 per cent at $1.05bn. However, adjusted non-GAAP numbers are more positive, showing almost a doubling of profits to …