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On January 27th this week, Sony WILL finally offer up official details for the PSP2. From today, key representatives based across the global games industry – from publishing and development to the media, from Bath to Boston – are flying to Tokyo for the grand unveiling. The successor is expected …

GAME CEO Ian Shepherd has told MCV the retailer is well prepared for the future of the video games market. Next month the company will be announcing plans to better address the increased prominence of digital games and content. The new agenda will put GAME in good stead for the …

Lobby group Gamers' Voice demands action on mounting problems with PS3 and PC Black Ops

Just two and a half years after its debut in July 2008, over the weekend the Apple App Store saw its ten billionth app downloaded. Free game Paper Glider was actually the app in question, and was downloaded by Kent resident Gail Davis who won a $10,000 iTunes gift card …

Legal controversy building around the term 'ville'

Kongregate CEO Jim Greer has declared he was shocked” by Google’s removal of his firm’s Kongregate Arcade app from the Android Marketplace. The app allows consumers to play games from the GameStop-owned Flash games portal, but was pulled within hours of going live on Android, with Google claiming the marketplace …

It’s a question being asked up and down the chain of command at the likes of HMV and GAME, their rivals and their partners. In post-Christmas trading updates, both of the former announced less-than-stellar results. Sure, there were signs of genuine resilience, but also spots of genuine weakness. The alarm …

Make no mistake – the same industry shift that the MCV Awards are already addressing is weighing heavily on the minds leading the retail braintrust. What does the future hold for retail at a time where the default word to describe its sector is ‘challenging’? It’s a question being asked …

Ubisoft is Kinect’s most successful third-party publisher in EMEA, the company has told MCV. The publisher’s trio of Kinect games – Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Motion Sports and Fighters Uncaged – has given the firm a 20 per cent market share on Microsoft’s motion controller. The news follows NPD’s US …

More than half of GAME’s customers use trade-ins to fund purchases of new titles, the firm has told MCV. CEO Ian Shepherd revealed the specialist retail giant’s pre-owned offer was a key driver in all sales over the competitive Christmas period. He highlighted trade-in as a real point of difference” …