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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” …

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EA has spoken for the first time about the improvements it wishes to introduce in this year’s version of the FIFA franchise. Last year’s game was both a critical and commercial smash, scoring a reputable 89 per cent on Metacritic and breaking both day one and week one records for …

Consumer pressure group Gamers’ Voice is campaigning for Activision to resolve issue with the PS3 and PC editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The organisation is preparing to petition to the Office of Fair Trading about glitches and regular freezing after Activision ignored its open letter, according to IncGamers. …

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