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Activision’s November release Call of Duty: Black Ops has now generated revenues in excess of $1bn. It hit the milestone in just six weeks on the market. The achievement is just the latest in a long line of impressive accomplishments by the game. In its first week in the UK …

A total of 1.5m Windows Phone 7 handsets have been shipped since its launch six weeks ago, Microsoft claims. We started fresh with Windows Phone 7, and it’s a different kind of phone,” vice president of business and marketing for Windows phones Achim Berg said in an interview posted on …

Nintendo weeks away from expanding its studio partnerships for the 3D handheld

UK games retail sold 1m fewer games during November than it did during the same period in 2009, according to GfK Chart-Track data. Just shy of 9m games were sold at retail last month, while a little under 10m units were shifted during the same period in 2009. But retailers …

2010 will be remembered as a tough but successful year for the video game industry. It was the year that saw casual and online games played through social networks emerge from boxed products’ still large shadow as key forms of interactive entertainment. It seemed everyone was playing Angry Birds at …

Popular drag-and-drop game creation tool continues platform expansion

New Develop feature explores the cityâ??s growth prospects

Consumers will snap up 3DTVs faster than when they upgraded to HD. That’s the message from SCEE president Andrew House who was responding to questions on when the tipping point will be for 3D in the home. He says that 2011 will be a major year for 3D games, although …

A HTML5 edition of Mafia Wars launches worldwide

At a time when Britain prepared for what would be an historic general election, the industry was still trying to assess the potential implications of The Digital Economy Bill. Meanwhile, the BBC rocked established games models by announcing four free Doctor Who games while Gizmodo got into all sorts of …